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Fire creates possible parking lot
by Dan Erickson
Additional parking
could be on the way
for the North Park
campus if the site of
an auto shop fire is
offered to the school at a fair
market value, according to Carl
Balsam, vice president of
administration and finance.
The land which is being con-sidered
is located between the
the burned out building in
September, the owners moved
on to another location. North
Park has since been in negoti-ations
to buy the land to help
relieve some of the school's
current parking problems.
"We do have an interest in
the property, and the board has
authorized us to purse its pur-chase,"
said Balsam. North
Park has had the property
appraised and the value is said
"We do have an interest in the property..."
-Carl Balsam
vice president of administration and finance
current Kedzie parking lot and
the Physical Plant building on
the corner of Kedzie and Car-men.
Until this summer an auto
Shop occupied the land. A fire
over the summer, however,
destroyed the building and,
according to a sign posted on
to be $450,000. According to
Balsam who has been in con-tact
with the owner, the current
asking price is considerably
more than the appraisal value,
which, in Balsam's words, "is
hard to justify."
The college does not plan on
purchasing the property until
the asking price is lowered to
what is considered a fair mar-ket
value. Balsam would not
venture any predictions as to
whether North Park will actually
buy the property while the
negotiation process continues.
The auto repair shop ignited
in July amidst some structural
work inside the building. It is
thought that a beam heated
from welding may have caused
some material inside the build-ing
to smolder during the night,
according to Balsam.
The land sat idle for several
months after the fire and has
been completely cleared of
debris in the last two weeks.
The job, according to Balsam,
was finished when some resi-dents
of the community com-plained
to Alderman Margaret
Lauriano about the eyesore
after not seeing any clean-up
efforts for some time.
Major in whatever, minor in women
by Peri Stone
W hat can you do
with a Women's
Studies minor?
Ask Cheri
Meacham and
She'll explain that people have
their Ph.D.'s in Women's Stud-ies.
Meacham, co-chair of the
newly-approved Women's
Studies minor at North Park,
says that there are "major
Women's issues in every area."
"Many businesses need
expertise in women's issues,"
She explained. "To be a part of
the change, you need to under-stand
the issues."
Issues like the glass ceiling,
sexual harassment, child care,
etc. can cost a woman serious
Mistakes if she's unaware,
according to Meacham.
"There's a lot to be done for
hundreds of years of silence.
It's going to take more then a
generation to fill these
silences," said to Meacham
She also remarked that she
has seen a growth in the
involvement of women's stud-ies
classes that North Park
offers.
In 1990, 13 students braved
criticism from their peers who
categorized them as man-haters.
They were testing the
waters in the first Introduction
to Women's Studies class.
For the past three years,
between 30 and 40 students
have become involved in the
same class. This increase in
enrollment, coupled with
expressed interest, instigated
the minor.
Meacham would love to see
a major developed, although a
"minor might be sufficient in a
small school."
More and more classes,
though, are incorporating
women's issues into their cur-riculum
and discussion.
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Meacham recognizes the
incorporation, but also sees a
"value in taking all the other
disciplines and focusing just on
that one issue."
Such a focus has been
materialized this semester in
classes like Women, the Bible,
and the Church and Women in
U.S. History.
In the spring, Sue Horner,
also co-chair of the Women's
Studies department, will teach
Second Wave Feminism.
Meacham hopes to see an
International Feminism class
offered in the future, which
would be team taught with the
sociology department. Other
possibilities include a Minority
Women in Literature class and
a Women in Philosophy class,
all team taught with corre-sponding
departments.
Continued growth could also
lead to a Women's Studies
Center, according to Meacham.
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A view of the former auto shop on Kedzie and Carmen, before the rub-ble
was cleared away.
New group seizes initiative
by Matt Landin
criminatory events on
o combat recent dis-campus,
a committee
has been officially
formed to potentially
incorporate every student
group at North Park.
Student Association Presi-dent
Aaron Olson, with various
other student leaders, has
pulled every student group on
campus into the bounds of a
Community Initiative group.
The group was originally
because it must deal with
bureaucratic legislature proce-dures.
The initiative group will not
have to go through any red
tape and can deal with the
issues which student senate
cannot.
One goal of the group is to
talk about community in a pos-itive
setting.
"The only time people talk
about community on this cam-pus
is when something goes
wrong," noted Olson.
Another way in which the mi-
"The mgy time people talk about conummity on
tlis campus is when sometlim Imes wimp."
-Aaron Olson, SA President
designed to deal with North
Park's racial problem. Deb
Gambs and Aaron Olson first
suggested the idea last year
following the racial disruption
which resulted from the senate
elections. The notion was
rekindled this year after the
incident involving the MPAACT
signs in Anderson.
One way the group hopes to
fulfill its mission is through its
informality. Senate is largely a
legislative body, according Pete
Ousley, BSA President and SA
senator, and it cannot handle
all the problems it would like to
tiative group hopes to flourish
is through its membership.
"Some groups don't tie to
senate, like Urban Outreach
and dorm committees. They
don't feel represented," said
Olson. "The Community Initia-tive
can reach those groups."
The core group, consisting of
Aaron Olson, Pete Ousley, Deb
Gambs, Sara Pool and Marta
Johnson, met once to discuss
their goals. The focus of the Ink
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Middle East Center arrives OH MMus
by Rebekah Eklund
T he new Middle East
Studies Center
(MESC) was
approved by a unani-mous
vote at the
Board of Directors meeting
October 28.
Led by Executive Director
Don Wagner, it is the first evan-gelical
Christian center for Mid-dle
Eastern studies in North
America. According to Wagner,
the MESC promises to be a
resource for North Park stu-dents,
the 90 members of the
Coalition of Christian Colleges
and Universities and the
church at large.
Ongoing activities for stu-dents
will include lectures from
Arab Christian and Jewish
leaders, cultural events and, of
course, music and food. Wag-ner
hopes that the center will
also provide support for Arab
Christians and Muslims on
campus. Academically, stu-dents
will have the resources of
established Middle East stud-ies
centers at the University of
Chicago and Georgetown Uni-versity,
among others.
Wagner started teaching
world religions last year at
North Park and hopes to teach
more next year.
"I'm excited to be back in the
campus arena," he said. Given
the recent assassination of
Israeli Prime Minister ltzhak
Rabin, Wagner feels that this is
an especially important time to
begin fostering positive rela-tions
with Arabs and Jews, and
to increase understanding of
the center, he hopes to create
interfaith dialogue with these
surrounding communities.
"What we're going to start to
Christian Palestinians. Accord-ing
to Wagner, the center will
focus strongly on the study of
Middle Eastern Christianity.
A tattered Israeli flag flies near Jericho during a North Park student
trip to Israel last year.
see in the world as it becomes
global is the confrontation of
world religions," said Student
Association President Aaron
Olson. "With the MESC, NPC
has the chance to be on the
cutting edge of that. Students
can become more informed on
the issues in the Middle East."
Suhail Qumri, a Palestinian
"It's great to see a place that wants to have
relations between the two groups and to
work through their differences."
those cultures. He says that a
course on modern Middle East
politics is among the possibili-ties
for academic programs
stemming from the center.
The center will help students
and faculty relate to the Jewish
community and the growing
Muslim and Arab Christian
communities around North
Park, said Wagner. Through
-MarieIlen Angarola
student from Jerusalem, is
excited about the opportunities
provided by the new center.
"It feels great to have stu-dents
know more about the
Middle East, the problems
there and Christianity there," he
said. "Lots of people are inter-ested."
One of Qumri's hopes
for the center is that it will help
students better understand
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Qumri hopes that a Middle East
Student Association will form,
open to all interested students.
Commuter Marielien
Angarola works for the center
and says that she is disturbed
that the great majority of news
on the Middle East reports only
the negative.
"It's great to see a place that
wants to have relations
between the two groups and to
work through their differences,"
she said.
The proposal for the MESC
was submitted to the Board Of
Directors by Evangelicals for
Middle East Understanding
(EMEU), a nine-year-old net-work
of evangelical Christian
organizations and leaders in
North America. Wagner coordi-nates
EMEU, and the new cen-ter
will operate as a full partner
with the network. Caroline Hall
will house offices for both the
MESC and EMEU.
"Don Wagner's oustanding
educational background and
his experience in understand-ing
issues of the Middle East
will clearly be an asset to North
Park," said President David
Horner. Wagner, an expert in
Middle Eastern Christianity,
holds a bachelor's degree in
psychology from Westminster
College, masters' degrees in
divinity and theology from
Princeton Theological Semi-nary
and a Doctor of Ministry
from McCormick Theological
Seminary in Chicago.
The center will also work to
provide Holy Land pilgrimages
so students can "meet local
Christians in Israel and the sur-rounding
areas," said Wagner,
explaining that this aspect is
often ignored by such trips.
North Park currently has an
extension campus in
Jerusalem at the Institute of
Holy Land Studies. Wagner
says that he would like to work
in a partnership with this exist-ing
program, with which a
group of North Park students
traveled to Israel for a two-week
trip last year. He adds
that he hopes the center can
brings its particular emphasis—
on modern politics and relating
to Arab Christians in the Middle
East—to North Park's Institute
program.
Over 25 letters endorsed the
MESC, including those from
David Neff, executive editor of
Christianity Today, and Karen
A. Longman, vice president of
the Coalition for Christian Col-leges
and Universities. The offi-cial
opening of the center took
place on November 8, assisted
by internationally known
speaker Fr. Elias Chacour, a
Palestinian Christian from
Israel.
The MESC is North Park's
fifth cultural center. Wagner
joins Ed Aponte (Latino Stud-ies),
Denise Isom (African-
American Studies), Ho-Youn
Kwom (Korean Studies) and
Charles Peterson (Scandina-vian
Studies).
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is x5785 for those interested
in more information.
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tiative was originally racial, but
has since taken on a broader
mission.
As determined in the original
meeting, "The purpose of the
'Community Initiative' is to fos-ter
community on the North
Park campus by addressing
issues of race, culture, gender,
religion and issues of division."
However, the goals will con-tinue
to evolve with the group,
according to Olson. Gambs
said she is pleased with the
broad mission but Hopes that
its original focus on race issues
does not get lost along the way.
The results of the first meet-ing
were sent, with invitations,
to other student leaders for the
next meeting, which took place
October 29 in Brorson Lounge.
The frequency and times of
future meetings are still unde-cided.
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2 November 10 1995
'Peace I Leave With You"
by Kristina Klockars
A packed Anderson
Chapel welcomed
Nobel Peace Prize
Nominee Father
Elias Chacour, a
Palestinian Church Leader, to
deliver the keynote address at
the opening of North Park Col-lege's
new Middle East Studies
Center this past Wednesday
night.
Father Chacour, author of
Blood Brothers and We Belong
to the Land, spoke on the "Mid-dle
East Peace Process and
the Future of Christianity in the
Holy Land."
Chacour urged the audience
to remember that all people are
born babies, and that we need
to come together and strive for
peace.
"I was not born a Christian, I
don't know how one can be
born Christian. I was born sim-ply
a baby—just like everyone
else," said Chacour in a class
he addressed earlier that day.
Chacour, the youngest of
five children, grew up on the
border of Lebanon and what
was then Palestine in a small
Christian village. At the age of
eight, Chacour's family and
entire village was displaced by
the Israeli authorities. The peo-ple
in Chacour's village were
finally allowed back into their
village on Christmas Eve many
years later, only to find that the
village had been destroyed.
Only the church's steeple was
left standing.
Chacour has spent the last
13 years working to create suit-able
education that will be
offered to all Israeli people:
Christians, Muslims and Jews.
Chacour has built a high school
and, this past year, a college
which currently has 450 stu-dents
enrolled. Chacour hopes
that enrollment keeps growing
to match the 1,500 student
enrollment of the high school.
Even in light of the recent
assassination of Israeli Prime
Rabin assassinated
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Three suspects have been
apprehended in connection
With the assassination of Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin
was shot dead in Tel Aviv on
Saturday after speaking to a
rally of 100,000 supporters,
saying that he was ready to
take risks for peace.
Despite much anticipation,
retired General Colin Powell
Officially declared Wednesday
that he will not run for the pres-idency,
vice presidency or any
Other elected office in 1996.
Political analysts now predict
that with Powell out of the pic-ture,
the 1996 presidential race
Will be between Bob Dole and
Bill Clinton. Powell would
have been the top rival for Dole
for the Republican nomination,
and for Clinton as well, if he
had won it.
U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Gill
Pleaded guilty Tuesday to the
rape of the 12-year-old girl.
Marine privates Kendrick Ledet
and Rodrico Harp pleaded not
guilty, but admitted involvement
in planning the assault. Their
families, however, claim their
innocence and state that those
statements were coerced.
A new AIDS drug called
saquinavir was given condi-tional
approval by an FDA advi-sory
panel. Experts hope it will
Prolong an AIDS patient's life or
been infected with HIV.
According to the Environmental
Protection Agency in a report
issued Monday, about 90 mil-lion
Americans breathe air that
flunks federal health stan-dards.
In early December Verity
Records will release a tribute
album honoring civil rights
heroine Rosa Parks in recog-nition
of the 40th anniversary of
the Montgomery, Ala. bus boy-cott.
A survey of 425 members of
the American Society of Travel
Agents revealed the current
"hot spots" for vacationers.
They include, somewhat sur-prisingly,
Vietnam, Costa Rica,
Atlanta, Australia, Cuba and
South Africa.
The Barbie Doll Hall of Fame
located in Palo Alto, Ca. is
being forced out so the new
owner of its building can open
a restaurant. The museum,
which holds over 20,000
exhibits, breached its lease
because the insurance for the
collection was not sufficient.
The House approved a stop-gap
funding bill that will keep
the federal government oper-ating
through Dec. 1, which
replaces a temporary funding
bill set to expire next week.
Unless it is restructured in the
Senate, however, it will likely be
vetoed by Clinton.
Minister Rabin, Chacour
believes that the peace pro-cess
that Rabin was working
for will continue in the right
direction.
"The fact that Rabin was
assassinated does not mean
that the peace process was
assassinated," said Chacour.
He believes that peace
between the Palestinians and
Israelis has already occurred,
but this peace needs to spread
out and expand to include all
people.
At the end of his address,
Chacour encouraged the audi-ence
to remember that the
Jews and the Muslims are not
terrorists and not inclined to
violence, "but that you and they
are both babies."
"Father Chacour is a great
Christian leader and example,"
said Dr. Don Wagner, director
of the new Middle East Studies
Center. "We are blessed to
have had him give the keynote
address and set the standard
for which the new center can
grow." Wagner envisions the
center as encompassing
diverse groups so they can
come together as one—which
reflects the goal of Chacour's
schools.
Ethnoviolence on campus
By Andrew Nelsen
NSNS Staff Writer
Each year, 25 to 30 percent
of minority college students in
this country are victimized by
some form of ethnoviolence,
according to Dr. Howard J.
Ehrlich, executive co-director of
the Prejudice Institute at Tow-son
State University and an
expert on the subject of hate
crimes.
Whether it be racially offen-sive
graffiti, verbal insults of
physical violence, Ehrlich says
that incidences of ethnovio-lence
on college campuses
have an effect on everyone in
the campus community.
"These incidents don't just
touch one person," said
Ehrlich. "60 percent to 90 per-cent
of a group can hear about
an incident in a very short
period of time."
Although Ehrlich says that
campus ethnoviolence has
reached a plateau in the past
few years, there is still what he
calls "a substantial undercur-rent"
of racial tension through-out
out the country, and new
developments.
Last week the words, "Die
fag, die" were scrawled on the
message board of a Boston
College student. BC adminis-trators
have reported nine inci-dents
of anti-homosexual graf-fiti
at the school this year.
Administrators had no expla-nation
for the increase in
homophobic incidents.
Last year at Fairfield Univer-sity
in Connecticut, racial epi-thets
were written on the walls
of one of the residence halls.
The message called for "a new
generation of KKK," and it
threatened minorities who did
not leave campus immediately.
With disturbing incidents like
these continuing to occur
throughout the nation, many
schools are responding to the
problem with education.
For instance, multicultural-ism
and diversity trainings are
being emphasized at Fairfield
in an effort to increase under-standing,
and eliminate fears
and misconceptions on cam-pus.
Similar programs have been
instated at other universities,
and many schools have orga-nized
groups, forums, teach-ins
and workshops to generate dia-logue
about sensitive race rela-tions
issues.
(Diana Pisciotta of The
Boston College Heights con-tributed
to this article.)
Homer attends senate
by Kristian Werling
T he Senate meeting
began with an update
from the representa-tive
to the Board of
Directors regarding
the Board's meeting last week-end,
followed by an address to
the Senate from President
Horner.
Homer talked in length about
possible restructuring plans for
North Park College if we were
to change to North Park Uni-versity.
Plans include separat-ing
the majors into four
schools: a liberal arts school; a
professional school, including
business and accounting
majors; the theological society;
and a fourth technology-related
school.
He went into detail about
how each school would be
related to the rest of the Uni-versity.
He wants to include
more covenant resources, such
as the camps and the
Covenant Benevolent Society,
which is the fifth largest care-provider
in the United States
and would allow the school to
offer a social services major.
Presently, Horner pointed out,
the college isn't using that
resource.
Several associations under
the Student Association gave
reports on their work and the
reporting section was con-cluded
with updates from the
President and Vice President of
the Senate.
Following the reports, the
senators broke down into
classes in order to discuss rep-resentation
of their con-stituents,
a new exercise that
the executive committee devel-oped
to help senators decide
how to better represent the stu-dent
body.
Other topics of debate
included the funding of aca-demic
clubs by the Student
Association. Discussion cen-tered
around the debate over
the precedence set by the Sen-ate's
decision on legislation.
Senate concluded with some
new legislation regarding a
change in bylaws to incorpo-rate
the Asian American Asso-ciation
and the Korean Student
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Forgiving our color
by Kirstin Jackson
am not going to give a
fancy speech. I do that
at other places; how-ever,
I do not do that
among friends.
Tonight, I am going to
talk straight from my heart."
These were the opening
words of Jonathan Kozol,
author of several books includ-ing
Death at an Early Age,
Rachel and Her Children, and
Savage Inequalities, which
examine issues of social, eco-nomic
and political inequality
that are prevalent throughout
urban areas in America.
Kozol's speech was adver-tised
as a lecture and book
signing for his most recent
book, Amazing Grace, which
depicts the daily lives and
struggles of children in the
South Bronx of New York City.
Rather than following the origi-nal
intent of the evening, how-ever,
it became clear that Kozol
came to the University of
Chicago on October 26 for an
entirely different purpose.
This event was not struc-tured
as a money-making,
fame-increasing venture on
Kozol's behalf. Rather, it was
designed to provide a voice for
children in economically disad-vantaged
communities, who do
not have the power or the
opportunity to share their expe-riences
and struggles.
It is interesting that in Amer-ica,
a country associated with
abundance, such a dichotomy
exists between issues of class,
race, gender and age. Exam-ples
of inequality and injustice
pervade individuals' lives
everyday; yet, if one were to
examine recent propositions
designed by many of our politi-cal
leaders, it would appear
that the polarization described
previously has either been
solved or is non-existent.
Amazingly enough, many of
our politicians continue to
preach the trickle-down eco-nomic
theories of the Reagan
Administration, even though
thousands of people are sub-jected
to environments where
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ON-CAMPUS:
*Tonight Schindler's List is
showing in L-1 at 7 p.m. This
movie depicts a gut-wrench-ing
era in our world's history
and should be seen by all.
The movie, brought to you by
SA costs $1.
*Also tonight, if you missed
it last week, come dance with
seminary student John Gar-rison
in Hanson Hall at 7:30
p.m. Brush up on your ball-room
and swing moves and
bring a date-it's free!
*Mark your calendar for the
Wind Ensemble Fall Concert
in Anderson Chapel next
November 16. The concert
begins at 8:15 p.m. and will
feature works by Rossini,
Jacob, Sonsa, Jager and
Bart. Make sure not to miss a
night of enchanting music.
OFF-CAMPUS:
*Tonight, the Old Town
School of Folk Music pre-sents
two of their favorite
headliners. Carrie New -
*Sunday, come join Brew n'
View with the Environmental
Committee. The Secret of
N.I.M.H. will play at 9 p.m. in
Java. There will also be
food, friends and information
on animal cruelty.
*Sunday, get ready to rock
Anderson Chapel with the
Gospel Choir, "Reflections of
Heaven." The fall concert,
which will also feature the
Salem Baptist Church Youth
Choir and soloist Aaron
Eddy, begins at 4 p.m. Cost
is nothing for students, but a
free-will offering will be
taken, so come support our
ever-growing and exciting
Gospel Choir.
comer, of the acclaimed folk
trio, Stone Soup, and Brooks
Williams, who sings Delta
and Chicago electric blues
will perform at 7 p.m. at the
Old Town, 909 W. Armitage.
Tickets run $8-12 and can be
purchased at the door.
Please call (312) 525-FOLK
for more information and to
purchase tickets over the
phone.
*If you are concerned about
our environment, Saturday
and Sunday, the Midwest
Environmental Justice Coali-tion.
Issues such as envi-ronmental
racism, environ-mental
justice, and commu-nity
organizing will be dis-cussed
at the Lutheran
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School of Theology:
Chicago, 1100 E. 55th on Sat-urday,
and the Ramada Inn
Lake Shore, 4800 S. Lake
Shore Drive on Sunday. The
conference costs only $5 for
students. Call (312) 468-1645
for more information.
*Saturday, head down to
Lounge Ax for The Cocktails
4th to last show ever. The
Cocktails, along with Scrawl
and Jonny Polonsky will per-form
starting at 10 p.m.
Lounge Ax is located at 2438
N. Lincoln in Chicago. Call
(312) 525-6620 for more infor-mation
and ticket prices.
*Sunday, November 12 the
first concert of the '95-'96
season of the Classical Sym-phony
Orchestra will be held
at 8 p.m. in Orchestra Hall,
220 S. Michigan Avenue.
Musical selections will
include works by Suppe,
Gershwin, Offenbach,
Stravinsky and Wagner.
Tickets are $15-$25. For
more information and to pur-chase
tickets, please call
(312) 341-1521.
*Frances Black, a famous
Irish singer, will perform at
the Irish American Heritage
Center next Thursday,
November 16 at 8 p.m. Black
is an internationally recog-nized
Celtic music singer
and has recently released
her solo debut album. Tick-ets
are $15-20 and can be
purchased over the phone or
at the door. Please call (312)
282-7035 for more informa-tion
and to purchase tickets.
lack of education, inadequate
housing and fear of violence
permeate their everyday lives.
"It is hard to believe that a
country who says it loves chil-dren,
allows children to grow
up in these conditions," said
Kozol as he struggled to main-tain
his composure. "My book
was written before Gingrich
became the majority leader.
Now they say they have to get
uttered from the mouth of the
six- and the eight-year-old.
If there were ever words that
exemplified the harsh reality of
oppression raging in our soci-ety,
it would be these pure and
innocent words whispered by
these children.
After hearing Kozol's power-ful
address, it became clear to
me that unless intentional
actions are taken to abolish the
"God bless Mommy. God bless Nanny. God
don't punish me for being black."
-a six-year-old, as quoted by author Jonathan Kozol.
tough on poor people. How
much tougher can we get?
How much, unless we engage
in human extermination?"
Kozol's statement is not an
exaggeration, rather it is an
honest and painful portrayal of
the oppression faced too often
by innocent individuals born
into unforgiving situations.
One of the most powerful
examples of inequality and
oppression Kozol depicted took
place one night in the bedroom
of two young African American
children who had befriended
Kozol. As he entered the room,
the two young children were
kneeling by their bedsides
praying.
Touched by the picture,
Kozol stood in the doorway to
hear their prayers.
"God bless Mommy. God
.bless Nanny. God don't punish
me for being black," was
inequality so prevalent within
our society, the same discrimi-nation
will be perpetuated.
Kozol concluded the evening
with a personal challenge to
each person seated in the audi-torium.
"Presently, we are losing at
almost every part of politics.
We are not going to win
through traditional politics. We
need people to take action by
asking, 'What will I do with my
life?"
Although the society that
presently exists is controlled by
oppression, inequality and dis-crimination,
there is still hope.
There is still hope if individuals
consciously decide to take
action to challenge societal
forces such as racism, sexism,
classism and ageism that main-tain
and perpetuate social
injustice.
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Concert Review
by Ryan Boyce
Ah...Halloween. A time to
dress-up, eat candy, and see
PHISH! The much anticipated
show of the year made it's way
to Chicago's Rosemont Hori-zon
last Tuesday, October
31st—and what a show it was!
We arrived at the Horizon
parking lot about 5 p.m., in
hopes of masquerade mad-ness.
While many were
dressed up in costume (plenty
of phishheads dressed as their
favorite Phish songs), the
whole Halloween scene
seemed to be dampened by
cold weather and the in(or
should I say un)famous Rose-mont
security needlessly
searching the fans.
Regardless, there were
many happy trick-or-treaters
inside when Phish took the
stage at approximately
7:15p.m..
Things got good quick when
the not dressed-up quartet
Opened with "Icculus," a crowd-favorite
off their 1992 release,
Junta. Emotions remained high
for an incredible and beautiful
"Divided Sky," also off Junta.
Trey Anastasio (guitar, vocals)
then gave the nod to Jon Fish-man
(drums, vocals) who
pounded into "Wilson" from the
band's latest effort, A Live One.
Other first-set highlights
included the reggae-influenced
"Yamar," a HUGE, twisted ver-sion
of "Run Like An Antelope,"
from 1990's Lawn Boy, Per-haps
the real highlight, though,
was a well-played "Harpua,"
which featured Page
McConnell (keyboards, vocals)
telling a scary raccoon story
with all the lights out in honor of
Halloween.
During the set-break, the
main focus of conversation was
which album Phish was going
to cover. Last Halloween, they
did the entire White Album by
the Beatles. Rumors included
numerous Grateful Dead
albums and Dark Side of the
Moon, by Pink Floyd. However,
when the lights dimmed once
again, Phish returned to the
stage with a four-piece horn
section, and covered the Who's
double-album masterpiece,
Quadrophenia in it's entirety.
WOW! Highlights included
"5:15" and "Love Reign O'er
Me," with Fishman on vocals.
After completing the album,
Phish took another break
before returning for a final and
rare third set. This is where
things got really good. They
started off an 80-minute, four-song
set with an ENORMOUS
version of "You Enjoy Myself"
(also off Junta) that lasted
close to 45 minutes!!
Phish next treated the crowd
to a rare version of "Jesus Just
Left Chicago" by ZZ Top. This
was a definite highlight due to
the ferocious saxophone solo.
A decent "Day in the Life" by
the Beatles, brought the crowd
alive in a big way. Phish closed
out the set with another fantas-tic
version of "Suzy Green-berg,"
with the help of the horn
section, once again.
Ask anyone who was at the
show, and they'll tell you the
encore choice was a complete
surprise. Phish returned to per-form
an ACOUSTIC version of
the Who's classic, "My Gener-ation."
Immediately after, Anas-tasio
and Fishman preceded to
smash an old drum set a la
Who style!!! After completely
destroying it, Anastasio
depressed a box which pro-duced
a huge explosion.
This show really blew me
away, as it did with most of the
audience. Phish made a huge
splash in Chicago, and next
Halloween, wherever they play,
you can bet I'll be there to reel
in another amazing show.
Returning to Roots
The Immigration Series
by Kristina Klockars
C hicago was the des-tination
for over
90,000 African-
Americans between
1910 and 1945.
The African-American move-ment,
otherwise know as The
Great Migration, is depicted in
a total of 60 paintings and nar-ratives
at the Chicago Histori-cal
Society by artist Jacob
Lawrence.
November 26 is the last day
that the Immigration Series,
Which includes Lawrence's
Works, will be open.
"This exhibition brings a
national perspective to an influx
Of residents on Chicago corn-munities
like Douglas/Grand
Boulevard," said Douglas
Greenberg, Ph.D., president
and director of the Chicago
Historical Society.
Lawrence, who was born in
Atlantic City in 1917, completed
this series of panels in 1941,
which was first exhibited at
New York's Downtown Gallery.
The panels depict dreams of
prosperity and economic suc-cess
in the North, but evolve to
the racial riots, segregation and
overcrowding that was experi-enced
when the migrants
reached cities like Chicago.
"I don't think in terms of his-tory
in that series," said
Lawrence. "It was like I was
doing a portrait of myself, a
portrait of my family, a portrait
of my peers." Lawrence was
named the "foremost Negro
artist" by age 30 and is consid-ered
this century's most widely
acclaimed African-American
artist.
The Chicago Historical Soci-ety
is located at the corner of
North Avenue and Clark Street
and is open from 9:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. daily, except Sunday
when the hours are from noon
to 5 p.m.
Admission to the museum is
suggested at $2 for students
(with valid school ID) and $3 for
adults.
Please contact the Chicago
Historical Society at (312) 642-
5035 ext. 383 for further infor-mation
about the Migration
Series.
VtitiErivcat
Movie Review
by Johan Serrander
Category: Thriller
Cast: Sigourney Weaver,
Harry Connick, Jr.
Director: Jon Amiel
Are you tired of serial killers
and psychopathic madmen? If
that is the case, this movie is
not for you.
Sigourney Weaver plays the
psychologist Helen Hudson,
who specializes in serial killers
before she is confronted with
one in the ladies' room. After
this incident, she develops ago-raphobia
and is unable to leave
her home.
After a while, a significant
number of people are mur-dered
in the San Francisco Bay
Area and the clever and good-looking
cop, M.J Monahan,
played by Holly Hunter, is put
on the case. She receives help-ful
anonymous phone calls,
which she is able to trace back
to Helen Hudson.
Together with Monahan's
assistant, Ruben, they come to
the conclusion that they are
dealing with a killer who copies
the work of previous killers,
such as the Boston Strangler
and Jeffrey Dahmer.
Soon Helen receives death
threats from the murderer and
experiences situations where
she believes there is an
intruder in her apartment. Is
this only her imagination, or is
the killer closer to her than she
thinks?
This movie is a typical "nail-biter
movie," and you might
want to have someone with you
to hold your hand when things
get too rough. The negative
side of it is that the story is not
very different from other "serial
killer movies"— you have seen
most of it before.
The Gold Experience
Album Review
by Greg Harms
The past few years have not
been kind to the artist formerly
known as Prince.
His last several albums have
bombed, the critics no longer
respect him, and no one has
taken his name-change seri-ously.
The Gold Experience is
his long-awaited comeback.
We first got a glimpse of
such a comeback over a year
ago with the hit single "The
Most Beautiful Girl in the
World." More recently we have
been treated to a promotional
blitz that rivals Michael Jack-son's
comeback attempt.
Living up to its name by
going gold in its first eight days
of release, the album has also
made a strong showing on
charts. The only question is: is
the album worth the hype? The
answer is yes. The Gold Expe-rience
is Prince's best album
yet.
The album contains12 songs
with an eclectic mix of styles
from rock 'n roll to techno to
lush balladry.
The best songs are "Now,"
"Dolphin," and "Gold." "Now" is
a funk-filled techno song with a
catchy horn section and clever
lyrics. He opens the song by
poking fun at his new name
and then urges everyone to join
him on the dance floor.
"Dolphin" is a ballad with an
upbeat chorus. The song is a
fantasy about being reincar-nated
as a dolphin. It's
addressed to a lover who no
longer loves him, but with the
chorus "If I came back as a dol-phin
would U listen 2 me then?"
it may as well be addressed to
all the fans who have deserted
him at the time of his greatest
artistic success.
"Gold," which focuses on
making the best of every situa-tion,
is a beautiful, uplifting
anthem in the vein of "Purple
Rain." The lyric "Even in the
center of the fire there is gold"
may have been what sustained
Prince through the past few
years.
A slightly different, yet
equally splendid, version of
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the
World" forms the centerpiece of
the album, followed with "We
March," an ear-pleasing, bass-throbbing
dance song that
makes a plea to end racism.
"P Control" is a tale of a
woman rising above the hate
and violence that surrounds
her. Reuniting Prince with his
long-absent guitar, "P-control"
is accompanied by some of the
best music Prince has ever
written.
The album contains only two
substandard songs. The cur-rent
single "(I) Hate You" threat-ens
to become bogged down
towards the end, and "Billy
Jack Bitch" is an uninspired,
annoyingly repetitive, throw-away
with numerous deroga-tory
references to women.
The other songs are on the
level of "Now" and "P Control,"
with excellent music and clever,
yet often contradictory lyrics.
Prince is letting us know that
since we have deserted him,
he's going to play by his own
rules.
For example, on "P Control"
and "We March," he exhorts
men not to call women bitches,
yet does so himself numerous
times throughout the album. On
"(I) Hate You,"
he declares his hatred for a
woman and says that he hates
her because he loves her. He
makes it clear that he has no
qualms about being contradic-tory,
and if the world can't han-dle
it, it's their problem.
He's got his own rules.
The Gold Experience is a
worthy comeback album worth
a listening. The music is stellar
and Prince has never been in
finer form.
November 10 1995 5
Miscommunication:
a pair of Docs?
by Mike O'Sullivan
Either by
force or by
choice, I
sure have
become
fascinated
with the
idea of
paradox
lately. There
are so many things that seem
to have a double meaning in
life that it's either learn to
appreciate them for the inher-ent
dichotomy, or go mad trying
to clean things up.
Lately, communication has
provided such a love/hate
paradox for me. For instance,
I'm finding that the less I say,
...true communi-cation
needs to
happen on a daily
basis...
the less frustrations I have in
trying to explain myself to oth-ers.
My heart is safely tucked
away, and I'm pretty much
safe. On the other hand, things
that go unsaid can, and usually
do, fester, and those around
me can be hurt by my lack of
communication with them.
This was all too real to me as
I recently found myself sitting in
a candlelit room with two of my
closest friends. Weeks of no
(and mis-) communication had
finally taken its toll, and the
time had come for them to get
the scoop from me. Even
though it was late at night (or
was it early in the morning?
Those blasted paradoxes
again!) and I was to be on the
starting line of a five-mile race
in only a few hours, I found
myself faced with the fact that
we needed to talk.
It was hard for me to get past
my newly developed philoso-phy
of stoic non-communica-tion,
and to forget the race that
was looming in my very near
future. With the persistent
tough love of these friends, I
was able to set both stoicism
and future race aside, and we
were able to have one of the
most meaningful (and longest)
conversations that I think we've
ever had. Tears were spilled,
hurts were aired, wounds were
treated, and love was shared.
Yeah, we were tired in the
morning, and the race took a lit-tle
bit more effort, but strangely,
I felt rejuvenated by the late
night before. (Paradox again?!)
True communication had
taken place—we saw into each
other in the way that should be
the norm. Sure, it won't always
be in candlelight, and with such
intense results, but I learned
that true communication needs
to happen on a daily basis in
order to maintain the sanity of
myself and those around me.
I also learned that while
things in life are always in flux,
some things should always be
constant: the love of friends,
and the trust and faith in each
other that accompanies that
love.
I need to set things aside to
talk and listen more often.
Although there may be a short-term
sacrifice made, the long-term
benefits will be worth-while.
Besides, you can't have
true friends without true com-munication,
and without true
friends, life can be pretty darn
hard to bear.
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6 November 10 1995
Lessons from Buddhism
by Ryan Boyce
A few weeks ago, I
had the experience
of visiting a Zen
Buddhist temple with
my world religions
class. From what I had heard, I
really did not know what it
would be like. I expected bald
monks sitting in the Lotus posi-tion,
chanting and meditating,
and worshipping those fat,
happy statues of Buddha.
While some of my expectations
were accurate, I realized there
is so much more to Buddhism,
and I saw I could apply it to my
own life.
The basic concept of Bud-dhism
is that through medita-tion,
one searches for enlight-enment
through the self, and
no one else.
Through the teachings of
Buddha (who was not fat and
not a god) one can learn to
master the ways of attempting
to reach something Buddhists
call Nirvana (no, not the group).
Nirvana is a state of perfect
peace and enlightenment,
through which one searches no
more.
What struck me as interest-ing
was the Zen instructor. He
was a white guy from Toronto.
Yes, he was bald, and con-stantly
sitting in the Lotus posi-tion,
yet he was different than
what I expected.
He explained that meditation
is essential for self-awareness
and discovery, and it helps
eliminate stress by focusing on
the moment rather than outside
distractions.
This guy was relaxed, happy
and seemed worry-free,
despite the noises, problems
and distractions of everyday
life. Throughout his instruction
and meditation, I realized that
what he was saying can be
applied to me and other North
Parkers.
You see, it really doesn't
matter what religion we are, or
even if we disagree with Bud-dhism
or not (there are many
things I don't agree with). What
matters is that through the
meditation and relaxation tech-niques
that Buddhism teaches,
not only can we relieve stress
but also, we can search our-selves
in the process.
Guess what? These devices
work. Ask any psychologist,
and they will tell you the same
thing. Meditation doesn't have
to involve joining a Buddhist
group or sitting in the Lotus
position all day, every day.
Meditation means quieting
yourself and taking a break
from things that stress us out
from time to time, and appreci-ating
the comfort, silence and
relaxation our bodies need.
Find out what works best for
you. Chances are if you prac-tice
some form of meditation
regularly, you will stress less.
And remember one thing: just
because Buddhism and other
religions may be different than
Christianity, or whatever reli-gion
you practice, that does not
mean you can't apply it to your
life. We can learn a lot from
other religions—even if we
don't agree with them.
Are you a God fan?
Seuth Chaleunphonh
Ii f you walk down a hall-way
in Burgh Hall on a
Monday night, you are
sure to find at least a
handful of televisions
loyally tuned into Monday Night
Football. If you drive over to
Evanston's Dyche's Stadium
tomorrow, you will find dozens
of loyal people gathering hours
before kickoff in celebration
and anticipation of the North-western–
Iowa match -up. The
stadium sells out every time the
Chicago Bulls play at home.
We really get caught
up in the excitement of watch-ing
and praising our teams—
we follow sports so religiously.
Perhaps we follow sports even
more religiously than religion.
Sports fans spend
hundreds of dollars on sports
publications, game tickets, and
merchandise supporting their
teams. The sports page is the
hottest section of the Chicago
Tribune at Burgh Hall. We read
it as a daily devotion. We check
the scores, read everything we
can get our hands on about our
team and favorite players, and
watch the highlights on the
news. Fans gather at football
stadiums on Sunday mornings
to cheer for their team.
What about our God?
Where is that enthusiasm?
Why don't we gather together
to praise Him with the same or
even greater enthusiasm?
Where is the daily devotion?
Iffirml faith
by Matt Landin
Do we try to read everything
we can get our hands on? Is
not encountering the God of all
a greater event than watching
the Bears? Is it a question of
supply and demand?
Would we be more
devoted to our God if we had to
buy tickets to enter into His
presence? Has our society
taken for granted the free gift of
grace and fellowship with our
Creator?
As sports fans, many
excel. Many have proven their
dedication and faithfulness.
How about as God fans? Have
we done enough to prove our
dedication and faithfulness? Or,
are we just bad weather fans
calling on him only in times of
trouble or trial?
Why should
we have
faith in
something
we can't
see? Who
should we
believe in
and why?
I sometimes rely on my friends
for certain things, ranging from
loaning me a few bucks to giv-ing
me good advice. I have
faith they will come through for
me, if at all possible.
I base my faith in these
friends on how well I know
them. I never have faith in
some people because they
have lost my trust in one way or
another.
Again, I am basing my faith,
or lack thereof, on how well I
personally know the individual.
This rule is much harder to
apply to Jesus, but not impos-sible.
A lot of people speak of hav-ing
a strong belief in Christ
through blind faith, a faith in
which they cannot see. These
people would say, "The blinder
the faith, the braver the Chris-tian."
I say, "The blinder the faith,
the blinder the dummy." What
makes a person believe in
something blindly? The only
time to do that is when there is
no other option. With Jesus
there is a choice.
I find myself sometimes
doubting the probability of
Christ as a deity. But I still end
up believing, somehow finding
a base for my faith. I can find
no fault in the teaching of
Jesus. Therefore, I base my
faith in Jesus on the flawless-ness
of His teaching.
Another base for belief can
be personal reflection. A Chris-tian
should be able to have
faith in Jesus through a faith in
oneself by looking at how one's
life as a Christian has helped
the world.
Others may base their faith
on a feeling, a feeling that is
real to them. Many people have
problems feeling what they
can't see. But for some, it's a
solid fact in their life.
"Because my parents told
me so" is not a good enough
answer for me. Some could
argue that they have a faith in
their parents so they believe
what their parents taught them.
I just don't buy it. A faith like
that gets lost through the gen-erations;
it should be more indi-vidualistic.
Blind faith is dangerous and
does not usually make for the
kind of strong, unwavering faith
that God really wants.
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by Mark Erickson
"People are
making way
too big a
deal over
this," he
said. "It has
nothing to
do with
race. Any-time
some-thing
happens to a black per-son,
they automatically assume
it's racial." Another sign adver-tising
a BSA event had been
torn down, and it was followed
in my box. I looked over the
details as I walked to my room,
and thought about attending
the meeting. It is now on the
floor, next to my bed. I did not
feel like going to the meeting
that day. I had just gotten off
work, I had homework to do, I
was tired from getting up early
for church, the Bears were
playing...
Like many people, my atti-tudes
and actions state clearly,
"I am not racist and therefore
do not have to worry about
race issues." I ignore the prob-lems.
I do not see many racial
problems from my experience,
The racism many of us foster is not
blatant, but is subtly insensitive.
by the administration's usual
Warning about respecting each
other and the implications of
such an act. I nodded to my
friend, knowing that I was not
racist, and had no reason to
Worry.
"I'm sick of this racial aware-ness
crap," a student said
loudly enough for me to hear,
as I struggled with the combi-nation
of my mailbox. She held
Up an announcement about a
Meeting on race issues in the
US, and crumpled it in her
hand. Her friend nodded, and
she discarded the paper in the
trash.
I got my combination to click
after the fifth attempt, and
found the same announcement
so I disbelieve their existence.
I leave it to the people of other
races to work out the problems
they perceive.
I attended the Center City
Church Conference two weeks
ago in Aurora. Wayne Gordon,
a speaker at one of the semi-nars
and pastor of a church in
Lawndale, talked about racial
reconciliation. He said we must
admit there are differences,
understand the differences,
and learn to appreciate the dif-ferences
among people of dif-ferent
races. He cited a poll
taken after the Simpson verdict
was released. It concluded that
the vast majority of African-
Americans believe they cannot
get a fair trial in the US, while
the majority of Anglo-Ameri-cans
believe they can.
Gordon lives in a neighbor-hood
that is predominantly
African-American. He said that
he does not know one young
African-American male in his
neighborhood who had not
been mistreated by the police.
As a whole, Anglo-Americans
do not have the same perspec-tive
of justice as African-Amer-icans
in the US. "We are not
even on the same page," Gor-don
said.
Victor Mendoza, pastor of a
Hispanic church in Aurora and
a speaker at the conference,
said that many attempts of
racial reconciliation today are
shallow. "I had to address the
problem of my own racism
before any reconciliation could
take place," he said. His mes-sage
resonated in me.
The racism many of us foster
is not blatant, but is subtly
insensitive. We do not listen to
the problems, and do not give
those presenting the issues
much credibility. Instead of
placing all of the responsibility
on those people to figure out
their problems, all of us must
humbly deal with our own
racism and actively understand
the perspectives of others.
We only show our insensitiv-ity
and weakness when we say
through our actions and atti-tudes,
"I'm not racist, therefore
it is not my problem." It is time
to accept responsibility and lis-ten
to each other.
LETTERS
Attendance policy
I have been bothered this
year by the attendance policy
that has been adopted by the
faculty and staff. In most of my
classes this fall, an attendance
sheet has been passed around
the class, with the attached ulti-matum
that grades and points
will be docked with absences.
I'm not sure if this is a new pol-icy,
but I never had this in any
of my classes last year. I'm not
even sure if this is a staff-wide
decision or not, but I have
heard many friends and other
students mention that their pro-fessors
are doing the same in
their classes.
To me, this is ridiculous.
"Roll" is something that was
done in high school and junior
high to avoid "cuts."
In college, I feel that while
attendance is vital, it should be
the internal motivation of the
student which gets them to
class. Docking points to me
seems overkill and negative
reinforcement, as grades most
likely will suffer already anyway
because of the absence itself.
Double-docking is unnecessary
and juvenile.
I feel that it is a choice to
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come to college and it should
be a choice to attend classes or
not.
I would hope that students
would choose to go, not only
for grade purposes, but also for
financial reasons. $17,000 is a
lot to spend for skipped
classes.
I feel that this is an
unneeded policy and should be
discontinued immediately. I
don't like feeling that a "big
brother" is watching over me,
and I also don't feel that I
should be docked points for
missing a class here and there
because I run for North Park's
cross-country team. I feel that I
will receive good marks
whether I miss a class or not,
but that's because I am moti-vated
internally to do my best.
Emphasizing this trait in stu-dents
through positive enforce-ment
would be a much better
method.
I would like to be treated as
the adult I am, and I feel this is
too much of a grade school
mandate.
Any input from faculty, staff
or students would be welcome.
Mike O'Sullivan, junior
ijeOurth alib What if we really loved?
by Mark Ake Larson
ro 'ane
If you have
ever been
to a wed-ding,
you
have prob-ably
heard I
Corinthians
13. It is the
passage that starts, "If I speak
with the tongues of mortals and
of angels, but do not have love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging
cymbal," and later states that
"love is patient, love is kind."
The minister reads it while
the couple smiles, coos and
cries. Most of the people in
attendance are wiping their
eyes and thinking, "What a
beautiful passage, a perfect
example of what their love for
each other should be."
Am I the only one who is
sickened by this? It makes me
sad to hear about the ideal of
love which we all fall so short
of.
I know a lot of people, myself
included, who strive to live up
to the example Christ pre-sented
in the gospels. We may
smile once or twice a day, give
a dollar here or there to the
poor, and try to be genuine
when we ask how people are
doing, but there is truth in the
saying "The heart is desper-ately
wicked."
When compared to the
model of Christ, how do we
measure up?
This summer, I worked at a
Bible camp—a place where the
committed young people in the
church spend their summers,
where Christ-like attitudes
should abound, where the
head lifeguard and the mainte-nance
man wouldn't speak to
counselors spent all day with
only the "cool" campers and
other staffers spent more
energy proclaiming the gospel
of their own talents than that of
Christ.
How many of us loved any-one
according to I Corinthians?
I frequently found myself won-dering
if the majority of the
staffers were only there to get a
rush from all the little kids who
looked up to them. Is that an
expression of love?
I know there are "little points of light," but,
as we are trying to navigate through a hur-ricane
in the middle of the night, a couple of
birthday cake candles aren't gonna cut it.
each other, where the program
director and assistant cook
would have assistant manager
bashing parties, and where the
dishwasher would eat on the
back steps of the kitchen
because he hated the rest of
the staff.
Something was wrong there.
The staff all entered the sum-mer
with high hopes of spread-ing
the love of God to as many
campers as we could get our
dirty little spiritual hands on, but
this optimism deteriorated as
I went to a comedy club last
weekend. There was a sketch
that described an experience in
which a youth worker in a
church had sexually abused
one of the actors. Is that love?
From the reaction of the crowd
in the theater, most of the peo-ple
thought such an experience
was typical.
If we, as supposed followers
of Christ, really loved, would
the world think that? Would any
of those typical Christian
stereotypes exist?
I know there are "little points
of light," but, as we are trying to
navigate through a hurricane in
the middle of the night, a cou-ple
of birthday cake candles
aren't gonna cut it.
I like to think I try to follow
Christ. I even "humbled myself"
to make almost no money as
the dishwasher at camp this
summer.
I don't know how you feel,
but when I read I Corinthians
13, I know that I am guilty. I do
not love. If I were to make that
passage personal, and replace
the word "love" with the name
"Mark," it would have to be
completely inverted.
"Mark is not patient, Mark is
not kind, Mark is envious and
boastful and arrogant and rude.
He does insist on his own way;
he is irritable and resentful; he
does rejoice in wrongdoing,
and seldom rejoices in the
truth. Mark does not bear all
things, does not believe all
things, does not hope all
things, and does not endure all
things."
Could you replace my name
with yours? If not, are you just
fooling yourself thinking you
really love? If you can, and you
don't like it, what can we do to
change?
November 10 1995 7
Mg women battle It sit above the not during onset the final games hi their
1995 volleyball season.
he busy academic
schedule of the aver-age
college student
can already be a
demanding one.
Althetic participation adds to
this craziness. While usually a
great way to release stress, the
addition of athletics to a busy
lifestyle can be a cause of
stress, pressure and "burnout."
This week marks the last
week of the fall sports season
at North Park as football, cross-country,
men's and women's
soccer, women's volleyball and
women's tennis have either fin-ished
or are coming to a close
this weekend.
How do two Viking athletes
feel after a tough season?
"Tired," said junior Chris Ek,
a varsity cross-country team
member. "We've been training
hard for months, building in
intensity, and right now I'm
looking forward to a break."
"I'm addicted to athletics,"
said junior Tim Janes. "I
wouldn't know what else to do
with my free time without
sports." The varsity football,
basketball, track and sometime
club volleyball participant
seems to have inexhaustable
energy.
"I do get tired of the exces-sive
repetition on a daily basis,"
said Janes. "Doing the same
thing day after day can add up
by the end of a season. But by
that point, I'm usually already
looking forward to doing some-thing
new."
"By the end of a season, the
daily practices can wear on
you, but the races are still
enjoyable," agreed Ek. "I am
really looking forward to being
able to sleep in on Saturdays
again, instead of having to go
to a competition all day,
though."
Even in his current tired
state, Ek, like Janes, is glad
that he participates in athletics.
"I cannot be disappointed.
It's great to set goals and
achieve them athletically." Ek
said he will miss the regular
interaction with team members
but will be happy to have a bit
more free time in his daily
schedule.
In the past, Janes has been
known to be involved in athlet-ics
year-round, sometimes
doubling up two sports in one
season.
How does he manage the
inevitable "burnout" stage?
"When football is starting to
wear, I'm getting excited for
basketball, and when that's
getting old, I look forward to
track. It all works out," said
Janes.
Though Janes doesn't get
bored with sports, continuous
intense athleticism is a physical
strain.
"It takes its toll. I don't really
get an off-season for recovery,
and that can result in nagging
injuries. There usually is a time
that my body tells me to slow
down, and after a week or so of
sleeping more than usual, I can
get back to a regular routine,"
said Janes.
"I don't really get a mental
burnout, but my body can suf-fer
from it."
he sun rose bright
and beautiful on par-ticipants
of the 1995
Cross Country CCIW
Conference Champi-onships
on October 28. The
North Park teams fitted their
shoes with heavy duty spikes
to increase traction on a course
treacherous with slick mud and
wet, loose gravel.
The slippery hills claimed a
few wipe-out victims, but the
competition was fierce and
some admirable races were
run.
The meet was unusually
small — only eight schools
were invited to participate.
Each school entered only their
top seven runners in the Con-ference
race. Some atheletes
felt it was difficult to run when
the competition was so spread
out.
Runners who were not in the
top seven ran in a co-ed open
race after the Conference
men's and women's races.
Much of the course led back
through scenic but isolated
woodland areas where specta-tors
were few and far between.
The lack of outside motivation
made it difficult for some run-ners
to pace themselves and to
keep a strong race mentality.
The NPC women finished
fifth out of seven complete
teams in the three-mile race.
North Central, who hosted the
meet, narrowly beat out the
Augustana women for first
place on their home course.
The North Central men blew
out the competition to take first
by a large margin. The North
Central men are presently
ranked second in the nation
and hope to be a strong force
at the upcoming Nationals.
The North Park men's team
conquered rival Elmhurst by a
mere six points to take seventh
place in the meet. Gus Ander-son,
Chris Ek and Matt Hedin
all ran their personal best times
for a five-mile race (which is a
bit longer than the regulation
8k).
North Park and Elmhurst are
now tied up at two and two, a
No, there were no massive
group sideaches or huge team-comsuming
booby traps on the
course — Coach Kris Heins-man
ordered athletes compet-ing
in next week's Regional
meet to drop out of the race
early, to conserve strength.
Last weekend's icy run was
used by most members of the
Cross team as a fairly easy
workout.
The North Park women
dropped out at mile two, and.
the men made it to mile three.
Will Line, Ryan Wells and
Will Line, Ryan Wells and Matt Hedin did
manage to fit in a full 8k, but not on the
course, and not intentionally. Poorly marked
intersections confused more than a few
race participants.
rivalry which North Park hopes
to win once and for all at next
week's Regional meet.
The open race which fol-lowed
the Conference compe-titions
was a much larger and
more light-hearted race. Men
and women ran together over
the three-mile course. Five
North Park women ran their
personal bests. Linda Svens-son,
Sarah Thorson, Brita
Moon, Becky Eklund and
Kristin Downs all cut time off
their previous three-mile race
records.
Both teams started out look-ing
strong at the University of
Chicago Invitational last Satur-day,
despite freezing tempera-tures
and snow flurries. How-ever,
only Heather Johnson
crossed the finish line from
North Park, with a time of
30:30.
Matt Hedin did manage to fit in
a full 8k, but not on the course,
and not intentionally. Poorly
marked intersections confused
more than a few race partici-pants.
The runners are primed and
ready for the season finale in
Osh Kosh, Wisconsin, this
weekend. The vans will be
pulling out on Friday morning to
give the teams an early look at
the race course and ample time
to recover from the long (but
entertaining) ride.
The Regional meet is North
Park's only chance to defend
their status as Academic All-
American teams.
It is also the last college
meet for seniors Gus Anderson
and Dallas Nelson. The cross
country teams hope for favor-able
weather and good luck in
this season-closing race.
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Your Worst Nightm
Brute Squad II
Touchdown Temptatiom
T.C. -4go
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Fire creates possible parking lot
by Dan Erickson
Additional parking
could be on the way
for the North Park
campus if the site of
an auto shop fire is
offered to the school at a fair
market value, according to Carl
Balsam, vice president of
administration and finance.
The land which is being con-sidered
is located between the
the burned out building in
September, the owners moved
on to another location. North
Park has since been in negoti-ations
to buy the land to help
relieve some of the school's
current parking problems.
"We do have an interest in
the property, and the board has
authorized us to purse its pur-chase,"
said Balsam. North
Park has had the property
appraised and the value is said
"We do have an interest in the property..."
-Carl Balsam
vice president of administration and finance
current Kedzie parking lot and
the Physical Plant building on
the corner of Kedzie and Car-men.
Until this summer an auto
Shop occupied the land. A fire
over the summer, however,
destroyed the building and,
according to a sign posted on
to be $450,000. According to
Balsam who has been in con-tact
with the owner, the current
asking price is considerably
more than the appraisal value,
which, in Balsam's words, "is
hard to justify."
The college does not plan on
purchasing the property until
the asking price is lowered to
what is considered a fair mar-ket
value. Balsam would not
venture any predictions as to
whether North Park will actually
buy the property while the
negotiation process continues.
The auto repair shop ignited
in July amidst some structural
work inside the building. It is
thought that a beam heated
from welding may have caused
some material inside the build-ing
to smolder during the night,
according to Balsam.
The land sat idle for several
months after the fire and has
been completely cleared of
debris in the last two weeks.
The job, according to Balsam,
was finished when some resi-dents
of the community com-plained
to Alderman Margaret
Lauriano about the eyesore
after not seeing any clean-up
efforts for some time.
Major in whatever, minor in women
by Peri Stone
W hat can you do
with a Women's
Studies minor?
Ask Cheri
Meacham and
She'll explain that people have
their Ph.D.'s in Women's Stud-ies.
Meacham, co-chair of the
newly-approved Women's
Studies minor at North Park,
says that there are "major
Women's issues in every area."
"Many businesses need
expertise in women's issues,"
She explained. "To be a part of
the change, you need to under-stand
the issues."
Issues like the glass ceiling,
sexual harassment, child care,
etc. can cost a woman serious
Mistakes if she's unaware,
according to Meacham.
"There's a lot to be done for
hundreds of years of silence.
It's going to take more then a
generation to fill these
silences," said to Meacham
She also remarked that she
has seen a growth in the
involvement of women's stud-ies
classes that North Park
offers.
In 1990, 13 students braved
criticism from their peers who
categorized them as man-haters.
They were testing the
waters in the first Introduction
to Women's Studies class.
For the past three years,
between 30 and 40 students
have become involved in the
same class. This increase in
enrollment, coupled with
expressed interest, instigated
the minor.
Meacham would love to see
a major developed, although a
"minor might be sufficient in a
small school."
More and more classes,
though, are incorporating
women's issues into their cur-riculum
and discussion.
IMMW:Rgark
Meacham recognizes the
incorporation, but also sees a
"value in taking all the other
disciplines and focusing just on
that one issue."
Such a focus has been
materialized this semester in
classes like Women, the Bible,
and the Church and Women in
U.S. History.
In the spring, Sue Horner,
also co-chair of the Women's
Studies department, will teach
Second Wave Feminism.
Meacham hopes to see an
International Feminism class
offered in the future, which
would be team taught with the
sociology department. Other
possibilities include a Minority
Women in Literature class and
a Women in Philosophy class,
all team taught with corre-sponding
departments.
Continued growth could also
lead to a Women's Studies
Center, according to Meacham.
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A view of the former auto shop on Kedzie and Carmen, before the rub-ble
was cleared away.
New group seizes initiative
by Matt Landin
criminatory events on
o combat recent dis-campus,
a committee
has been officially
formed to potentially
incorporate every student
group at North Park.
Student Association Presi-dent
Aaron Olson, with various
other student leaders, has
pulled every student group on
campus into the bounds of a
Community Initiative group.
The group was originally
because it must deal with
bureaucratic legislature proce-dures.
The initiative group will not
have to go through any red
tape and can deal with the
issues which student senate
cannot.
One goal of the group is to
talk about community in a pos-itive
setting.
"The only time people talk
about community on this cam-pus
is when something goes
wrong," noted Olson.
Another way in which the mi-
"The mgy time people talk about conummity on
tlis campus is when sometlim Imes wimp."
-Aaron Olson, SA President
designed to deal with North
Park's racial problem. Deb
Gambs and Aaron Olson first
suggested the idea last year
following the racial disruption
which resulted from the senate
elections. The notion was
rekindled this year after the
incident involving the MPAACT
signs in Anderson.
One way the group hopes to
fulfill its mission is through its
informality. Senate is largely a
legislative body, according Pete
Ousley, BSA President and SA
senator, and it cannot handle
all the problems it would like to
tiative group hopes to flourish
is through its membership.
"Some groups don't tie to
senate, like Urban Outreach
and dorm committees. They
don't feel represented," said
Olson. "The Community Initia-tive
can reach those groups."
The core group, consisting of
Aaron Olson, Pete Ousley, Deb
Gambs, Sara Pool and Marta
Johnson, met once to discuss
their goals. The focus of the Ink
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Middle East Center arrives OH MMus
by Rebekah Eklund
T he new Middle East
Studies Center
(MESC) was
approved by a unani-mous
vote at the
Board of Directors meeting
October 28.
Led by Executive Director
Don Wagner, it is the first evan-gelical
Christian center for Mid-dle
Eastern studies in North
America. According to Wagner,
the MESC promises to be a
resource for North Park stu-dents,
the 90 members of the
Coalition of Christian Colleges
and Universities and the
church at large.
Ongoing activities for stu-dents
will include lectures from
Arab Christian and Jewish
leaders, cultural events and, of
course, music and food. Wag-ner
hopes that the center will
also provide support for Arab
Christians and Muslims on
campus. Academically, stu-dents
will have the resources of
established Middle East stud-ies
centers at the University of
Chicago and Georgetown Uni-versity,
among others.
Wagner started teaching
world religions last year at
North Park and hopes to teach
more next year.
"I'm excited to be back in the
campus arena," he said. Given
the recent assassination of
Israeli Prime Minister ltzhak
Rabin, Wagner feels that this is
an especially important time to
begin fostering positive rela-tions
with Arabs and Jews, and
to increase understanding of
the center, he hopes to create
interfaith dialogue with these
surrounding communities.
"What we're going to start to
Christian Palestinians. Accord-ing
to Wagner, the center will
focus strongly on the study of
Middle Eastern Christianity.
A tattered Israeli flag flies near Jericho during a North Park student
trip to Israel last year.
see in the world as it becomes
global is the confrontation of
world religions," said Student
Association President Aaron
Olson. "With the MESC, NPC
has the chance to be on the
cutting edge of that. Students
can become more informed on
the issues in the Middle East."
Suhail Qumri, a Palestinian
"It's great to see a place that wants to have
relations between the two groups and to
work through their differences."
those cultures. He says that a
course on modern Middle East
politics is among the possibili-ties
for academic programs
stemming from the center.
The center will help students
and faculty relate to the Jewish
community and the growing
Muslim and Arab Christian
communities around North
Park, said Wagner. Through
-MarieIlen Angarola
student from Jerusalem, is
excited about the opportunities
provided by the new center.
"It feels great to have stu-dents
know more about the
Middle East, the problems
there and Christianity there," he
said. "Lots of people are inter-ested."
One of Qumri's hopes
for the center is that it will help
students better understand
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Qumri hopes that a Middle East
Student Association will form,
open to all interested students.
Commuter Marielien
Angarola works for the center
and says that she is disturbed
that the great majority of news
on the Middle East reports only
the negative.
"It's great to see a place that
wants to have relations
between the two groups and to
work through their differences,"
she said.
The proposal for the MESC
was submitted to the Board Of
Directors by Evangelicals for
Middle East Understanding
(EMEU), a nine-year-old net-work
of evangelical Christian
organizations and leaders in
North America. Wagner coordi-nates
EMEU, and the new cen-ter
will operate as a full partner
with the network. Caroline Hall
will house offices for both the
MESC and EMEU.
"Don Wagner's oustanding
educational background and
his experience in understand-ing
issues of the Middle East
will clearly be an asset to North
Park," said President David
Horner. Wagner, an expert in
Middle Eastern Christianity,
holds a bachelor's degree in
psychology from Westminster
College, masters' degrees in
divinity and theology from
Princeton Theological Semi-nary
and a Doctor of Ministry
from McCormick Theological
Seminary in Chicago.
The center will also work to
provide Holy Land pilgrimages
so students can "meet local
Christians in Israel and the sur-rounding
areas," said Wagner,
explaining that this aspect is
often ignored by such trips.
North Park currently has an
extension campus in
Jerusalem at the Institute of
Holy Land Studies. Wagner
says that he would like to work
in a partnership with this exist-ing
program, with which a
group of North Park students
traveled to Israel for a two-week
trip last year. He adds
that he hopes the center can
brings its particular emphasis—
on modern politics and relating
to Arab Christians in the Middle
East—to North Park's Institute
program.
Over 25 letters endorsed the
MESC, including those from
David Neff, executive editor of
Christianity Today, and Karen
A. Longman, vice president of
the Coalition for Christian Col-leges
and Universities. The offi-cial
opening of the center took
place on November 8, assisted
by internationally known
speaker Fr. Elias Chacour, a
Palestinian Christian from
Israel.
The MESC is North Park's
fifth cultural center. Wagner
joins Ed Aponte (Latino Stud-ies),
Denise Isom (African-
American Studies), Ho-Youn
Kwom (Korean Studies) and
Charles Peterson (Scandina-vian
Studies).
The phone for the new cen-ter
is x5785 for those interested
in more information.
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tiative was originally racial, but
has since taken on a broader
mission.
As determined in the original
meeting, "The purpose of the
'Community Initiative' is to fos-ter
community on the North
Park campus by addressing
issues of race, culture, gender,
religion and issues of division."
However, the goals will con-tinue
to evolve with the group,
according to Olson. Gambs
said she is pleased with the
broad mission but Hopes that
its original focus on race issues
does not get lost along the way.
The results of the first meet-ing
were sent, with invitations,
to other student leaders for the
next meeting, which took place
October 29 in Brorson Lounge.
The frequency and times of
future meetings are still unde-cided.
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2 November 10 1995
'Peace I Leave With You"
by Kristina Klockars
A packed Anderson
Chapel welcomed
Nobel Peace Prize
Nominee Father
Elias Chacour, a
Palestinian Church Leader, to
deliver the keynote address at
the opening of North Park Col-lege's
new Middle East Studies
Center this past Wednesday
night.
Father Chacour, author of
Blood Brothers and We Belong
to the Land, spoke on the "Mid-dle
East Peace Process and
the Future of Christianity in the
Holy Land."
Chacour urged the audience
to remember that all people are
born babies, and that we need
to come together and strive for
peace.
"I was not born a Christian, I
don't know how one can be
born Christian. I was born sim-ply
a baby—just like everyone
else," said Chacour in a class
he addressed earlier that day.
Chacour, the youngest of
five children, grew up on the
border of Lebanon and what
was then Palestine in a small
Christian village. At the age of
eight, Chacour's family and
entire village was displaced by
the Israeli authorities. The peo-ple
in Chacour's village were
finally allowed back into their
village on Christmas Eve many
years later, only to find that the
village had been destroyed.
Only the church's steeple was
left standing.
Chacour has spent the last
13 years working to create suit-able
education that will be
offered to all Israeli people:
Christians, Muslims and Jews.
Chacour has built a high school
and, this past year, a college
which currently has 450 stu-dents
enrolled. Chacour hopes
that enrollment keeps growing
to match the 1,500 student
enrollment of the high school.
Even in light of the recent
assassination of Israeli Prime
Rabin assassinated
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Three suspects have been
apprehended in connection
With the assassination of Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin
was shot dead in Tel Aviv on
Saturday after speaking to a
rally of 100,000 supporters,
saying that he was ready to
take risks for peace.
Despite much anticipation,
retired General Colin Powell
Officially declared Wednesday
that he will not run for the pres-idency,
vice presidency or any
Other elected office in 1996.
Political analysts now predict
that with Powell out of the pic-ture,
the 1996 presidential race
Will be between Bob Dole and
Bill Clinton. Powell would
have been the top rival for Dole
for the Republican nomination,
and for Clinton as well, if he
had won it.
U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Gill
Pleaded guilty Tuesday to the
rape of the 12-year-old girl.
Marine privates Kendrick Ledet
and Rodrico Harp pleaded not
guilty, but admitted involvement
in planning the assault. Their
families, however, claim their
innocence and state that those
statements were coerced.
A new AIDS drug called
saquinavir was given condi-tional
approval by an FDA advi-sory
panel. Experts hope it will
Prolong an AIDS patient's life or
been infected with HIV.
According to the Environmental
Protection Agency in a report
issued Monday, about 90 mil-lion
Americans breathe air that
flunks federal health stan-dards.
In early December Verity
Records will release a tribute
album honoring civil rights
heroine Rosa Parks in recog-nition
of the 40th anniversary of
the Montgomery, Ala. bus boy-cott.
A survey of 425 members of
the American Society of Travel
Agents revealed the current
"hot spots" for vacationers.
They include, somewhat sur-prisingly,
Vietnam, Costa Rica,
Atlanta, Australia, Cuba and
South Africa.
The Barbie Doll Hall of Fame
located in Palo Alto, Ca. is
being forced out so the new
owner of its building can open
a restaurant. The museum,
which holds over 20,000
exhibits, breached its lease
because the insurance for the
collection was not sufficient.
The House approved a stop-gap
funding bill that will keep
the federal government oper-ating
through Dec. 1, which
replaces a temporary funding
bill set to expire next week.
Unless it is restructured in the
Senate, however, it will likely be
vetoed by Clinton.
Minister Rabin, Chacour
believes that the peace pro-cess
that Rabin was working
for will continue in the right
direction.
"The fact that Rabin was
assassinated does not mean
that the peace process was
assassinated," said Chacour.
He believes that peace
between the Palestinians and
Israelis has already occurred,
but this peace needs to spread
out and expand to include all
people.
At the end of his address,
Chacour encouraged the audi-ence
to remember that the
Jews and the Muslims are not
terrorists and not inclined to
violence, "but that you and they
are both babies."
"Father Chacour is a great
Christian leader and example,"
said Dr. Don Wagner, director
of the new Middle East Studies
Center. "We are blessed to
have had him give the keynote
address and set the standard
for which the new center can
grow." Wagner envisions the
center as encompassing
diverse groups so they can
come together as one—which
reflects the goal of Chacour's
schools.
Ethnoviolence on campus
By Andrew Nelsen
NSNS Staff Writer
Each year, 25 to 30 percent
of minority college students in
this country are victimized by
some form of ethnoviolence,
according to Dr. Howard J.
Ehrlich, executive co-director of
the Prejudice Institute at Tow-son
State University and an
expert on the subject of hate
crimes.
Whether it be racially offen-sive
graffiti, verbal insults of
physical violence, Ehrlich says
that incidences of ethnovio-lence
on college campuses
have an effect on everyone in
the campus community.
"These incidents don't just
touch one person," said
Ehrlich. "60 percent to 90 per-cent
of a group can hear about
an incident in a very short
period of time."
Although Ehrlich says that
campus ethnoviolence has
reached a plateau in the past
few years, there is still what he
calls "a substantial undercur-rent"
of racial tension through-out
out the country, and new
developments.
Last week the words, "Die
fag, die" were scrawled on the
message board of a Boston
College student. BC adminis-trators
have reported nine inci-dents
of anti-homosexual graf-fiti
at the school this year.
Administrators had no expla-nation
for the increase in
homophobic incidents.
Last year at Fairfield Univer-sity
in Connecticut, racial epi-thets
were written on the walls
of one of the residence halls.
The message called for "a new
generation of KKK," and it
threatened minorities who did
not leave campus immediately.
With disturbing incidents like
these continuing to occur
throughout the nation, many
schools are responding to the
problem with education.
For instance, multicultural-ism
and diversity trainings are
being emphasized at Fairfield
in an effort to increase under-standing,
and eliminate fears
and misconceptions on cam-pus.
Similar programs have been
instated at other universities,
and many schools have orga-nized
groups, forums, teach-ins
and workshops to generate dia-logue
about sensitive race rela-tions
issues.
(Diana Pisciotta of The
Boston College Heights con-tributed
to this article.)
Homer attends senate
by Kristian Werling
T he Senate meeting
began with an update
from the representa-tive
to the Board of
Directors regarding
the Board's meeting last week-end,
followed by an address to
the Senate from President
Horner.
Homer talked in length about
possible restructuring plans for
North Park College if we were
to change to North Park Uni-versity.
Plans include separat-ing
the majors into four
schools: a liberal arts school; a
professional school, including
business and accounting
majors; the theological society;
and a fourth technology-related
school.
He went into detail about
how each school would be
related to the rest of the Uni-versity.
He wants to include
more covenant resources, such
as the camps and the
Covenant Benevolent Society,
which is the fifth largest care-provider
in the United States
and would allow the school to
offer a social services major.
Presently, Horner pointed out,
the college isn't using that
resource.
Several associations under
the Student Association gave
reports on their work and the
reporting section was con-cluded
with updates from the
President and Vice President of
the Senate.
Following the reports, the
senators broke down into
classes in order to discuss rep-resentation
of their con-stituents,
a new exercise that
the executive committee devel-oped
to help senators decide
how to better represent the stu-dent
body.
Other topics of debate
included the funding of aca-demic
clubs by the Student
Association. Discussion cen-tered
around the debate over
the precedence set by the Sen-ate's
decision on legislation.
Senate concluded with some
new legislation regarding a
change in bylaws to incorpo-rate
the Asian American Asso-ciation
and the Korean Student
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Forgiving our color
by Kirstin Jackson
am not going to give a
fancy speech. I do that
at other places; how-ever,
I do not do that
among friends.
Tonight, I am going to
talk straight from my heart."
These were the opening
words of Jonathan Kozol,
author of several books includ-ing
Death at an Early Age,
Rachel and Her Children, and
Savage Inequalities, which
examine issues of social, eco-nomic
and political inequality
that are prevalent throughout
urban areas in America.
Kozol's speech was adver-tised
as a lecture and book
signing for his most recent
book, Amazing Grace, which
depicts the daily lives and
struggles of children in the
South Bronx of New York City.
Rather than following the origi-nal
intent of the evening, how-ever,
it became clear that Kozol
came to the University of
Chicago on October 26 for an
entirely different purpose.
This event was not struc-tured
as a money-making,
fame-increasing venture on
Kozol's behalf. Rather, it was
designed to provide a voice for
children in economically disad-vantaged
communities, who do
not have the power or the
opportunity to share their expe-riences
and struggles.
It is interesting that in Amer-ica,
a country associated with
abundance, such a dichotomy
exists between issues of class,
race, gender and age. Exam-ples
of inequality and injustice
pervade individuals' lives
everyday; yet, if one were to
examine recent propositions
designed by many of our politi-cal
leaders, it would appear
that the polarization described
previously has either been
solved or is non-existent.
Amazingly enough, many of
our politicians continue to
preach the trickle-down eco-nomic
theories of the Reagan
Administration, even though
thousands of people are sub-jected
to environments where
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ON-CAMPUS:
*Tonight Schindler's List is
showing in L-1 at 7 p.m. This
movie depicts a gut-wrench-ing
era in our world's history
and should be seen by all.
The movie, brought to you by
SA costs $1.
*Also tonight, if you missed
it last week, come dance with
seminary student John Gar-rison
in Hanson Hall at 7:30
p.m. Brush up on your ball-room
and swing moves and
bring a date-it's free!
*Mark your calendar for the
Wind Ensemble Fall Concert
in Anderson Chapel next
November 16. The concert
begins at 8:15 p.m. and will
feature works by Rossini,
Jacob, Sonsa, Jager and
Bart. Make sure not to miss a
night of enchanting music.
OFF-CAMPUS:
*Tonight, the Old Town
School of Folk Music pre-sents
two of their favorite
headliners. Carrie New -
*Sunday, come join Brew n'
View with the Environmental
Committee. The Secret of
N.I.M.H. will play at 9 p.m. in
Java. There will also be
food, friends and information
on animal cruelty.
*Sunday, get ready to rock
Anderson Chapel with the
Gospel Choir, "Reflections of
Heaven." The fall concert,
which will also feature the
Salem Baptist Church Youth
Choir and soloist Aaron
Eddy, begins at 4 p.m. Cost
is nothing for students, but a
free-will offering will be
taken, so come support our
ever-growing and exciting
Gospel Choir.
comer, of the acclaimed folk
trio, Stone Soup, and Brooks
Williams, who sings Delta
and Chicago electric blues
will perform at 7 p.m. at the
Old Town, 909 W. Armitage.
Tickets run $8-12 and can be
purchased at the door.
Please call (312) 525-FOLK
for more information and to
purchase tickets over the
phone.
*If you are concerned about
our environment, Saturday
and Sunday, the Midwest
Environmental Justice Coali-tion.
Issues such as envi-ronmental
racism, environ-mental
justice, and commu-nity
organizing will be dis-cussed
at the Lutheran
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School of Theology:
Chicago, 1100 E. 55th on Sat-urday,
and the Ramada Inn
Lake Shore, 4800 S. Lake
Shore Drive on Sunday. The
conference costs only $5 for
students. Call (312) 468-1645
for more information.
*Saturday, head down to
Lounge Ax for The Cocktails
4th to last show ever. The
Cocktails, along with Scrawl
and Jonny Polonsky will per-form
starting at 10 p.m.
Lounge Ax is located at 2438
N. Lincoln in Chicago. Call
(312) 525-6620 for more infor-mation
and ticket prices.
*Sunday, November 12 the
first concert of the '95-'96
season of the Classical Sym-phony
Orchestra will be held
at 8 p.m. in Orchestra Hall,
220 S. Michigan Avenue.
Musical selections will
include works by Suppe,
Gershwin, Offenbach,
Stravinsky and Wagner.
Tickets are $15-$25. For
more information and to pur-chase
tickets, please call
(312) 341-1521.
*Frances Black, a famous
Irish singer, will perform at
the Irish American Heritage
Center next Thursday,
November 16 at 8 p.m. Black
is an internationally recog-nized
Celtic music singer
and has recently released
her solo debut album. Tick-ets
are $15-20 and can be
purchased over the phone or
at the door. Please call (312)
282-7035 for more informa-tion
and to purchase tickets.
lack of education, inadequate
housing and fear of violence
permeate their everyday lives.
"It is hard to believe that a
country who says it loves chil-dren,
allows children to grow
up in these conditions," said
Kozol as he struggled to main-tain
his composure. "My book
was written before Gingrich
became the majority leader.
Now they say they have to get
uttered from the mouth of the
six- and the eight-year-old.
If there were ever words that
exemplified the harsh reality of
oppression raging in our soci-ety,
it would be these pure and
innocent words whispered by
these children.
After hearing Kozol's power-ful
address, it became clear to
me that unless intentional
actions are taken to abolish the
"God bless Mommy. God bless Nanny. God
don't punish me for being black."
-a six-year-old, as quoted by author Jonathan Kozol.
tough on poor people. How
much tougher can we get?
How much, unless we engage
in human extermination?"
Kozol's statement is not an
exaggeration, rather it is an
honest and painful portrayal of
the oppression faced too often
by innocent individuals born
into unforgiving situations.
One of the most powerful
examples of inequality and
oppression Kozol depicted took
place one night in the bedroom
of two young African American
children who had befriended
Kozol. As he entered the room,
the two young children were
kneeling by their bedsides
praying.
Touched by the picture,
Kozol stood in the doorway to
hear their prayers.
"God bless Mommy. God
.bless Nanny. God don't punish
me for being black," was
inequality so prevalent within
our society, the same discrimi-nation
will be perpetuated.
Kozol concluded the evening
with a personal challenge to
each person seated in the audi-torium.
"Presently, we are losing at
almost every part of politics.
We are not going to win
through traditional politics. We
need people to take action by
asking, 'What will I do with my
life?"
Although the society that
presently exists is controlled by
oppression, inequality and dis-crimination,
there is still hope.
There is still hope if individuals
consciously decide to take
action to challenge societal
forces such as racism, sexism,
classism and ageism that main-tain
and perpetuate social
injustice.
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Phish-y fun on Halloween night
Concert Review
by Ryan Boyce
Ah...Halloween. A time to
dress-up, eat candy, and see
PHISH! The much anticipated
show of the year made it's way
to Chicago's Rosemont Hori-zon
last Tuesday, October
31st—and what a show it was!
We arrived at the Horizon
parking lot about 5 p.m., in
hopes of masquerade mad-ness.
While many were
dressed up in costume (plenty
of phishheads dressed as their
favorite Phish songs), the
whole Halloween scene
seemed to be dampened by
cold weather and the in(or
should I say un)famous Rose-mont
security needlessly
searching the fans.
Regardless, there were
many happy trick-or-treaters
inside when Phish took the
stage at approximately
7:15p.m..
Things got good quick when
the not dressed-up quartet
Opened with "Icculus," a crowd-favorite
off their 1992 release,
Junta. Emotions remained high
for an incredible and beautiful
"Divided Sky," also off Junta.
Trey Anastasio (guitar, vocals)
then gave the nod to Jon Fish-man
(drums, vocals) who
pounded into "Wilson" from the
band's latest effort, A Live One.
Other first-set highlights
included the reggae-influenced
"Yamar," a HUGE, twisted ver-sion
of "Run Like An Antelope,"
from 1990's Lawn Boy, Per-haps
the real highlight, though,
was a well-played "Harpua,"
which featured Page
McConnell (keyboards, vocals)
telling a scary raccoon story
with all the lights out in honor of
Halloween.
During the set-break, the
main focus of conversation was
which album Phish was going
to cover. Last Halloween, they
did the entire White Album by
the Beatles. Rumors included
numerous Grateful Dead
albums and Dark Side of the
Moon, by Pink Floyd. However,
when the lights dimmed once
again, Phish returned to the
stage with a four-piece horn
section, and covered the Who's
double-album masterpiece,
Quadrophenia in it's entirety.
WOW! Highlights included
"5:15" and "Love Reign O'er
Me," with Fishman on vocals.
After completing the album,
Phish took another break
before returning for a final and
rare third set. This is where
things got really good. They
started off an 80-minute, four-song
set with an ENORMOUS
version of "You Enjoy Myself"
(also off Junta) that lasted
close to 45 minutes!!
Phish next treated the crowd
to a rare version of "Jesus Just
Left Chicago" by ZZ Top. This
was a definite highlight due to
the ferocious saxophone solo.
A decent "Day in the Life" by
the Beatles, brought the crowd
alive in a big way. Phish closed
out the set with another fantas-tic
version of "Suzy Green-berg,"
with the help of the horn
section, once again.
Ask anyone who was at the
show, and they'll tell you the
encore choice was a complete
surprise. Phish returned to per-form
an ACOUSTIC version of
the Who's classic, "My Gener-ation."
Immediately after, Anas-tasio
and Fishman preceded to
smash an old drum set a la
Who style!!! After completely
destroying it, Anastasio
depressed a box which pro-duced
a huge explosion.
This show really blew me
away, as it did with most of the
audience. Phish made a huge
splash in Chicago, and next
Halloween, wherever they play,
you can bet I'll be there to reel
in another amazing show.
Returning to Roots
The Immigration Series
by Kristina Klockars
C hicago was the des-tination
for over
90,000 African-
Americans between
1910 and 1945.
The African-American move-ment,
otherwise know as The
Great Migration, is depicted in
a total of 60 paintings and nar-ratives
at the Chicago Histori-cal
Society by artist Jacob
Lawrence.
November 26 is the last day
that the Immigration Series,
Which includes Lawrence's
Works, will be open.
"This exhibition brings a
national perspective to an influx
Of residents on Chicago corn-munities
like Douglas/Grand
Boulevard," said Douglas
Greenberg, Ph.D., president
and director of the Chicago
Historical Society.
Lawrence, who was born in
Atlantic City in 1917, completed
this series of panels in 1941,
which was first exhibited at
New York's Downtown Gallery.
The panels depict dreams of
prosperity and economic suc-cess
in the North, but evolve to
the racial riots, segregation and
overcrowding that was experi-enced
when the migrants
reached cities like Chicago.
"I don't think in terms of his-tory
in that series," said
Lawrence. "It was like I was
doing a portrait of myself, a
portrait of my family, a portrait
of my peers." Lawrence was
named the "foremost Negro
artist" by age 30 and is consid-ered
this century's most widely
acclaimed African-American
artist.
The Chicago Historical Soci-ety
is located at the corner of
North Avenue and Clark Street
and is open from 9:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. daily, except Sunday
when the hours are from noon
to 5 p.m.
Admission to the museum is
suggested at $2 for students
(with valid school ID) and $3 for
adults.
Please contact the Chicago
Historical Society at (312) 642-
5035 ext. 383 for further infor-mation
about the Migration
Series.
VtitiErivcat
Movie Review
by Johan Serrander
Category: Thriller
Cast: Sigourney Weaver,
Harry Connick, Jr.
Director: Jon Amiel
Are you tired of serial killers
and psychopathic madmen? If
that is the case, this movie is
not for you.
Sigourney Weaver plays the
psychologist Helen Hudson,
who specializes in serial killers
before she is confronted with
one in the ladies' room. After
this incident, she develops ago-raphobia
and is unable to leave
her home.
After a while, a significant
number of people are mur-dered
in the San Francisco Bay
Area and the clever and good-looking
cop, M.J Monahan,
played by Holly Hunter, is put
on the case. She receives help-ful
anonymous phone calls,
which she is able to trace back
to Helen Hudson.
Together with Monahan's
assistant, Ruben, they come to
the conclusion that they are
dealing with a killer who copies
the work of previous killers,
such as the Boston Strangler
and Jeffrey Dahmer.
Soon Helen receives death
threats from the murderer and
experiences situations where
she believes there is an
intruder in her apartment. Is
this only her imagination, or is
the killer closer to her than she
thinks?
This movie is a typical "nail-biter
movie," and you might
want to have someone with you
to hold your hand when things
get too rough. The negative
side of it is that the story is not
very different from other "serial
killer movies"— you have seen
most of it before.
The Gold Experience
Album Review
by Greg Harms
The past few years have not
been kind to the artist formerly
known as Prince.
His last several albums have
bombed, the critics no longer
respect him, and no one has
taken his name-change seri-ously.
The Gold Experience is
his long-awaited comeback.
We first got a glimpse of
such a comeback over a year
ago with the hit single "The
Most Beautiful Girl in the
World." More recently we have
been treated to a promotional
blitz that rivals Michael Jack-son's
comeback attempt.
Living up to its name by
going gold in its first eight days
of release, the album has also
made a strong showing on
charts. The only question is: is
the album worth the hype? The
answer is yes. The Gold Expe-rience
is Prince's best album
yet.
The album contains12 songs
with an eclectic mix of styles
from rock 'n roll to techno to
lush balladry.
The best songs are "Now,"
"Dolphin," and "Gold." "Now" is
a funk-filled techno song with a
catchy horn section and clever
lyrics. He opens the song by
poking fun at his new name
and then urges everyone to join
him on the dance floor.
"Dolphin" is a ballad with an
upbeat chorus. The song is a
fantasy about being reincar-nated
as a dolphin. It's
addressed to a lover who no
longer loves him, but with the
chorus "If I came back as a dol-phin
would U listen 2 me then?"
it may as well be addressed to
all the fans who have deserted
him at the time of his greatest
artistic success.
"Gold," which focuses on
making the best of every situa-tion,
is a beautiful, uplifting
anthem in the vein of "Purple
Rain." The lyric "Even in the
center of the fire there is gold"
may have been what sustained
Prince through the past few
years.
A slightly different, yet
equally splendid, version of
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the
World" forms the centerpiece of
the album, followed with "We
March," an ear-pleasing, bass-throbbing
dance song that
makes a plea to end racism.
"P Control" is a tale of a
woman rising above the hate
and violence that surrounds
her. Reuniting Prince with his
long-absent guitar, "P-control"
is accompanied by some of the
best music Prince has ever
written.
The album contains only two
substandard songs. The cur-rent
single "(I) Hate You" threat-ens
to become bogged down
towards the end, and "Billy
Jack Bitch" is an uninspired,
annoyingly repetitive, throw-away
with numerous deroga-tory
references to women.
The other songs are on the
level of "Now" and "P Control,"
with excellent music and clever,
yet often contradictory lyrics.
Prince is letting us know that
since we have deserted him,
he's going to play by his own
rules.
For example, on "P Control"
and "We March," he exhorts
men not to call women bitches,
yet does so himself numerous
times throughout the album. On
"(I) Hate You,"
he declares his hatred for a
woman and says that he hates
her because he loves her. He
makes it clear that he has no
qualms about being contradic-tory,
and if the world can't han-dle
it, it's their problem.
He's got his own rules.
The Gold Experience is a
worthy comeback album worth
a listening. The music is stellar
and Prince has never been in
finer form.
November 10 1995 5
Miscommunication:
a pair of Docs?
by Mike O'Sullivan
Either by
force or by
choice, I
sure have
become
fascinated
with the
idea of
paradox
lately. There
are so many things that seem
to have a double meaning in
life that it's either learn to
appreciate them for the inher-ent
dichotomy, or go mad trying
to clean things up.
Lately, communication has
provided such a love/hate
paradox for me. For instance,
I'm finding that the less I say,
...true communi-cation
needs to
happen on a daily
basis...
the less frustrations I have in
trying to explain myself to oth-ers.
My heart is safely tucked
away, and I'm pretty much
safe. On the other hand, things
that go unsaid can, and usually
do, fester, and those around
me can be hurt by my lack of
communication with them.
This was all too real to me as
I recently found myself sitting in
a candlelit room with two of my
closest friends. Weeks of no
(and mis-) communication had
finally taken its toll, and the
time had come for them to get
the scoop from me. Even
though it was late at night (or
was it early in the morning?
Those blasted paradoxes
again!) and I was to be on the
starting line of a five-mile race
in only a few hours, I found
myself faced with the fact that
we needed to talk.
It was hard for me to get past
my newly developed philoso-phy
of stoic non-communica-tion,
and to forget the race that
was looming in my very near
future. With the persistent
tough love of these friends, I
was able to set both stoicism
and future race aside, and we
were able to have one of the
most meaningful (and longest)
conversations that I think we've
ever had. Tears were spilled,
hurts were aired, wounds were
treated, and love was shared.
Yeah, we were tired in the
morning, and the race took a lit-tle
bit more effort, but strangely,
I felt rejuvenated by the late
night before. (Paradox again?!)
True communication had
taken place—we saw into each
other in the way that should be
the norm. Sure, it won't always
be in candlelight, and with such
intense results, but I learned
that true communication needs
to happen on a daily basis in
order to maintain the sanity of
myself and those around me.
I also learned that while
things in life are always in flux,
some things should always be
constant: the love of friends,
and the trust and faith in each
other that accompanies that
love.
I need to set things aside to
talk and listen more often.
Although there may be a short-term
sacrifice made, the long-term
benefits will be worth-while.
Besides, you can't have
true friends without true com-munication,
and without true
friends, life can be pretty darn
hard to bear.
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6 November 10 1995
Lessons from Buddhism
by Ryan Boyce
A few weeks ago, I
had the experience
of visiting a Zen
Buddhist temple with
my world religions
class. From what I had heard, I
really did not know what it
would be like. I expected bald
monks sitting in the Lotus posi-tion,
chanting and meditating,
and worshipping those fat,
happy statues of Buddha.
While some of my expectations
were accurate, I realized there
is so much more to Buddhism,
and I saw I could apply it to my
own life.
The basic concept of Bud-dhism
is that through medita-tion,
one searches for enlight-enment
through the self, and
no one else.
Through the teachings of
Buddha (who was not fat and
not a god) one can learn to
master the ways of attempting
to reach something Buddhists
call Nirvana (no, not the group).
Nirvana is a state of perfect
peace and enlightenment,
through which one searches no
more.
What struck me as interest-ing
was the Zen instructor. He
was a white guy from Toronto.
Yes, he was bald, and con-stantly
sitting in the Lotus posi-tion,
yet he was different than
what I expected.
He explained that meditation
is essential for self-awareness
and discovery, and it helps
eliminate stress by focusing on
the moment rather than outside
distractions.
This guy was relaxed, happy
and seemed worry-free,
despite the noises, problems
and distractions of everyday
life. Throughout his instruction
and meditation, I realized that
what he was saying can be
applied to me and other North
Parkers.
You see, it really doesn't
matter what religion we are, or
even if we disagree with Bud-dhism
or not (there are many
things I don't agree with). What
matters is that through the
meditation and relaxation tech-niques
that Buddhism teaches,
not only can we relieve stress
but also, we can search our-selves
in the process.
Guess what? These devices
work. Ask any psychologist,
and they will tell you the same
thing. Meditation doesn't have
to involve joining a Buddhist
group or sitting in the Lotus
position all day, every day.
Meditation means quieting
yourself and taking a break
from things that stress us out
from time to time, and appreci-ating
the comfort, silence and
relaxation our bodies need.
Find out what works best for
you. Chances are if you prac-tice
some form of meditation
regularly, you will stress less.
And remember one thing: just
because Buddhism and other
religions may be different than
Christianity, or whatever reli-gion
you practice, that does not
mean you can't apply it to your
life. We can learn a lot from
other religions—even if we
don't agree with them.
Are you a God fan?
Seuth Chaleunphonh
Ii f you walk down a hall-way
in Burgh Hall on a
Monday night, you are
sure to find at least a
handful of televisions
loyally tuned into Monday Night
Football. If you drive over to
Evanston's Dyche's Stadium
tomorrow, you will find dozens
of loyal people gathering hours
before kickoff in celebration
and anticipation of the North-western–
Iowa match -up. The
stadium sells out every time the
Chicago Bulls play at home.
We really get caught
up in the excitement of watch-ing
and praising our teams—
we follow sports so religiously.
Perhaps we follow sports even
more religiously than religion.
Sports fans spend
hundreds of dollars on sports
publications, game tickets, and
merchandise supporting their
teams. The sports page is the
hottest section of the Chicago
Tribune at Burgh Hall. We read
it as a daily devotion. We check
the scores, read everything we
can get our hands on about our
team and favorite players, and
watch the highlights on the
news. Fans gather at football
stadiums on Sunday mornings
to cheer for their team.
What about our God?
Where is that enthusiasm?
Why don't we gather together
to praise Him with the same or
even greater enthusiasm?
Where is the daily devotion?
Iffirml faith
by Matt Landin
Do we try to read everything
we can get our hands on? Is
not encountering the God of all
a greater event than watching
the Bears? Is it a question of
supply and demand?
Would we be more
devoted to our God if we had to
buy tickets to enter into His
presence? Has our society
taken for granted the free gift of
grace and fellowship with our
Creator?
As sports fans, many
excel. Many have proven their
dedication and faithfulness.
How about as God fans? Have
we done enough to prove our
dedication and faithfulness? Or,
are we just bad weather fans
calling on him only in times of
trouble or trial?
Why should
we have
faith in
something
we can't
see? Who
should we
believe in
and why?
I sometimes rely on my friends
for certain things, ranging from
loaning me a few bucks to giv-ing
me good advice. I have
faith they will come through for
me, if at all possible.
I base my faith in these
friends on how well I know
them. I never have faith in
some people because they
have lost my trust in one way or
another.
Again, I am basing my faith,
or lack thereof, on how well I
personally know the individual.
This rule is much harder to
apply to Jesus, but not impos-sible.
A lot of people speak of hav-ing
a strong belief in Christ
through blind faith, a faith in
which they cannot see. These
people would say, "The blinder
the faith, the braver the Chris-tian."
I say, "The blinder the faith,
the blinder the dummy." What
makes a person believe in
something blindly? The only
time to do that is when there is
no other option. With Jesus
there is a choice.
I find myself sometimes
doubting the probability of
Christ as a deity. But I still end
up believing, somehow finding
a base for my faith. I can find
no fault in the teaching of
Jesus. Therefore, I base my
faith in Jesus on the flawless-ness
of His teaching.
Another base for belief can
be personal reflection. A Chris-tian
should be able to have
faith in Jesus through a faith in
oneself by looking at how one's
life as a Christian has helped
the world.
Others may base their faith
on a feeling, a feeling that is
real to them. Many people have
problems feeling what they
can't see. But for some, it's a
solid fact in their life.
"Because my parents told
me so" is not a good enough
answer for me. Some could
argue that they have a faith in
their parents so they believe
what their parents taught them.
I just don't buy it. A faith like
that gets lost through the gen-erations;
it should be more indi-vidualistic.
Blind faith is dangerous and
does not usually make for the
kind of strong, unwavering faith
that God really wants.
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by Mark Erickson
"People are
making way
too big a
deal over
this," he
said. "It has
nothing to
do with
race. Any-time
some-thing
happens to a black per-son,
they automatically assume
it's racial." Another sign adver-tising
a BSA event had been
torn down, and it was followed
in my box. I looked over the
details as I walked to my room,
and thought about attending
the meeting. It is now on the
floor, next to my bed. I did not
feel like going to the meeting
that day. I had just gotten off
work, I had homework to do, I
was tired from getting up early
for church, the Bears were
playing...
Like many people, my atti-tudes
and actions state clearly,
"I am not racist and therefore
do not have to worry about
race issues." I ignore the prob-lems.
I do not see many racial
problems from my experience,
The racism many of us foster is not
blatant, but is subtly insensitive.
by the administration's usual
Warning about respecting each
other and the implications of
such an act. I nodded to my
friend, knowing that I was not
racist, and had no reason to
Worry.
"I'm sick of this racial aware-ness
crap," a student said
loudly enough for me to hear,
as I struggled with the combi-nation
of my mailbox. She held
Up an announcement about a
Meeting on race issues in the
US, and crumpled it in her
hand. Her friend nodded, and
she discarded the paper in the
trash.
I got my combination to click
after the fifth attempt, and
found the same announcement
so I disbelieve their existence.
I leave it to the people of other
races to work out the problems
they perceive.
I attended the Center City
Church Conference two weeks
ago in Aurora. Wayne Gordon,
a speaker at one of the semi-nars
and pastor of a church in
Lawndale, talked about racial
reconciliation. He said we must
admit there are differences,
understand the differences,
and learn to appreciate the dif-ferences
among people of dif-ferent
races. He cited a poll
taken after the Simpson verdict
was released. It concluded that
the vast majority of African-
Americans believe they cannot
get a fair trial in the US, while
the majority of Anglo-Ameri-cans
believe they can.
Gordon lives in a neighbor-hood
that is predominantly
African-American. He said that
he does not know one young
African-American male in his
neighborhood who had not
been mistreated by the police.
As a whole, Anglo-Americans
do not have the same perspec-tive
of justice as African-Amer-icans
in the US. "We are not
even on the same page," Gor-don
said.
Victor Mendoza, pastor of a
Hispanic church in Aurora and
a speaker at the conference,
said that many attempts of
racial reconciliation today are
shallow. "I had to address the
problem of my own racism
before any reconciliation could
take place," he said. His mes-sage
resonated in me.
The racism many of us foster
is not blatant, but is subtly
insensitive. We do not listen to
the problems, and do not give
those presenting the issues
much credibility. Instead of
placing all of the responsibility
on those people to figure out
their problems, all of us must
humbly deal with our own
racism and actively understand
the perspectives of others.
We only show our insensitiv-ity
and weakness when we say
through our actions and atti-tudes,
"I'm not racist, therefore
it is not my problem." It is time
to accept responsibility and lis-ten
to each other.
LETTERS
Attendance policy
I have been bothered this
year by the attendance policy
that has been adopted by the
faculty and staff. In most of my
classes this fall, an attendance
sheet has been passed around
the class, with the attached ulti-matum
that grades and points
will be docked with absences.
I'm not sure if this is a new pol-icy,
but I never had this in any
of my classes last year. I'm not
even sure if this is a staff-wide
decision or not, but I have
heard many friends and other
students mention that their pro-fessors
are doing the same in
their classes.
To me, this is ridiculous.
"Roll" is something that was
done in high school and junior
high to avoid "cuts."
In college, I feel that while
attendance is vital, it should be
the internal motivation of the
student which gets them to
class. Docking points to me
seems overkill and negative
reinforcement, as grades most
likely will suffer already anyway
because of the absence itself.
Double-docking is unnecessary
and juvenile.
I feel that it is a choice to
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come to college and it should
be a choice to attend classes or
not.
I would hope that students
would choose to go, not only
for grade purposes, but also for
financial reasons. $17,000 is a
lot to spend for skipped
classes.
I feel that this is an
unneeded policy and should be
discontinued immediately. I
don't like feeling that a "big
brother" is watching over me,
and I also don't feel that I
should be docked points for
missing a class here and there
because I run for North Park's
cross-country team. I feel that I
will receive good marks
whether I miss a class or not,
but that's because I am moti-vated
internally to do my best.
Emphasizing this trait in stu-dents
through positive enforce-ment
would be a much better
method.
I would like to be treated as
the adult I am, and I feel this is
too much of a grade school
mandate.
Any input from faculty, staff
or students would be welcome.
Mike O'Sullivan, junior
ijeOurth alib What if we really loved?
by Mark Ake Larson
ro 'ane
If you have
ever been
to a wed-ding,
you
have prob-ably
heard I
Corinthians
13. It is the
passage that starts, "If I speak
with the tongues of mortals and
of angels, but do not have love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging
cymbal," and later states that
"love is patient, love is kind."
The minister reads it while
the couple smiles, coos and
cries. Most of the people in
attendance are wiping their
eyes and thinking, "What a
beautiful passage, a perfect
example of what their love for
each other should be."
Am I the only one who is
sickened by this? It makes me
sad to hear about the ideal of
love which we all fall so short
of.
I know a lot of people, myself
included, who strive to live up
to the example Christ pre-sented
in the gospels. We may
smile once or twice a day, give
a dollar here or there to the
poor, and try to be genuine
when we ask how people are
doing, but there is truth in the
saying "The heart is desper-ately
wicked."
When compared to the
model of Christ, how do we
measure up?
This summer, I worked at a
Bible camp—a place where the
committed young people in the
church spend their summers,
where Christ-like attitudes
should abound, where the
head lifeguard and the mainte-nance
man wouldn't speak to
counselors spent all day with
only the "cool" campers and
other staffers spent more
energy proclaiming the gospel
of their own talents than that of
Christ.
How many of us loved any-one
according to I Corinthians?
I frequently found myself won-dering
if the majority of the
staffers were only there to get a
rush from all the little kids who
looked up to them. Is that an
expression of love?
I know there are "little points of light," but,
as we are trying to navigate through a hur-ricane
in the middle of the night, a couple of
birthday cake candles aren't gonna cut it.
each other, where the program
director and assistant cook
would have assistant manager
bashing parties, and where the
dishwasher would eat on the
back steps of the kitchen
because he hated the rest of
the staff.
Something was wrong there.
The staff all entered the sum-mer
with high hopes of spread-ing
the love of God to as many
campers as we could get our
dirty little spiritual hands on, but
this optimism deteriorated as
I went to a comedy club last
weekend. There was a sketch
that described an experience in
which a youth worker in a
church had sexually abused
one of the actors. Is that love?
From the reaction of the crowd
in the theater, most of the peo-ple
thought such an experience
was typical.
If we, as supposed followers
of Christ, really loved, would
the world think that? Would any
of those typical Christian
stereotypes exist?
I know there are "little points
of light," but, as we are trying to
navigate through a hurricane in
the middle of the night, a cou-ple
of birthday cake candles
aren't gonna cut it.
I like to think I try to follow
Christ. I even "humbled myself"
to make almost no money as
the dishwasher at camp this
summer.
I don't know how you feel,
but when I read I Corinthians
13, I know that I am guilty. I do
not love. If I were to make that
passage personal, and replace
the word "love" with the name
"Mark," it would have to be
completely inverted.
"Mark is not patient, Mark is
not kind, Mark is envious and
boastful and arrogant and rude.
He does insist on his own way;
he is irritable and resentful; he
does rejoice in wrongdoing,
and seldom rejoices in the
truth. Mark does not bear all
things, does not believe all
things, does not hope all
things, and does not endure all
things."
Could you replace my name
with yours? If not, are you just
fooling yourself thinking you
really love? If you can, and you
don't like it, what can we do to
change?
November 10 1995 7
Mg women battle It sit above the not during onset the final games hi their
1995 volleyball season.
he busy academic
schedule of the aver-age
college student
can already be a
demanding one.
Althetic participation adds to
this craziness. While usually a
great way to release stress, the
addition of athletics to a busy
lifestyle can be a cause of
stress, pressure and "burnout."
This week marks the last
week of the fall sports season
at North Park as football, cross-country,
men's and women's
soccer, women's volleyball and
women's tennis have either fin-ished
or are coming to a close
this weekend.
How do two Viking athletes
feel after a tough season?
"Tired," said junior Chris Ek,
a varsity cross-country team
member. "We've been training
hard for months, building in
intensity, and right now I'm
looking forward to a break."
"I'm addicted to athletics,"
said junior Tim Janes. "I
wouldn't know what else to do
with my free time without
sports." The varsity football,
basketball, track and sometime
club volleyball participant
seems to have inexhaustable
energy.
"I do get tired of the exces-sive
repetition on a daily basis,"
said Janes. "Doing the same
thing day after day can add up
by the end of a season. But by
that point, I'm usually already
looking forward to doing some-thing
new."
"By the end of a season, the
daily practices can wear on
you, but the races are still
enjoyable," agreed Ek. "I am
really looking forward to being
able to sleep in on Saturdays
again, instead of having to go
to a competition all day,
though."
Even in his current tired
state, Ek, like Janes, is glad
that he participates in athletics.
"I cannot be disappointed.
It's great to set goals and
achieve them athletically." Ek
said he will miss the regular
interaction with team members
but will be happy to have a bit
more free time in his daily
schedule.
In the past, Janes has been
known to be involved in athlet-ics
year-round, sometimes
doubling up two sports in one
season.
How does he manage the
inevitable "burnout" stage?
"When football is starting to
wear, I'm getting excited for
basketball, and when that's
getting old, I look forward to
track. It all works out," said
Janes.
Though Janes doesn't get
bored with sports, continuous
intense athleticism is a physical
strain.
"It takes its toll. I don't really
get an off-season for recovery,
and that can result in nagging
injuries. There usually is a time
that my body tells me to slow
down, and after a week or so of
sleeping more than usual, I can
get back to a regular routine,"
said Janes.
"I don't really get a mental
burnout, but my body can suf-fer
from it."
he sun rose bright
and beautiful on par-ticipants
of the 1995
Cross Country CCIW
Conference Champi-onships
on October 28. The
North Park teams fitted their
shoes with heavy duty spikes
to increase traction on a course
treacherous with slick mud and
wet, loose gravel.
The slippery hills claimed a
few wipe-out victims, but the
competition was fierce and
some admirable races were
run.
The meet was unusually
small — only eight schools
were invited to participate.
Each school entered only their
top seven runners in the Con-ference
race. Some atheletes
felt it was difficult to run when
the competition was so spread
out.
Runners who were not in the
top seven ran in a co-ed open
race after the Conference
men's and women's races.
Much of the course led back
through scenic but isolated
woodland areas where specta-tors
were few and far between.
The lack of outside motivation
made it difficult for some run-ners
to pace themselves and to
keep a strong race mentality.
The NPC women finished
fifth out of seven complete
teams in the three-mile race.
North Central, who hosted the
meet, narrowly beat out the
Augustana women for first
place on their home course.
The North Central men blew
out the competition to take first
by a large margin. The North
Central men are presently
ranked second in the nation
and hope to be a strong force
at the upcoming Nationals.
The North Park men's team
conquered rival Elmhurst by a
mere six points to take seventh
place in the meet. Gus Ander-son,
Chris Ek and Matt Hedin
all ran their personal best times
for a five-mile race (which is a
bit longer than the regulation
8k).
North Park and Elmhurst are
now tied up at two and two, a
No, there were no massive
group sideaches or huge team-comsuming
booby traps on the
course — Coach Kris Heins-man
ordered athletes compet-ing
in next week's Regional
meet to drop out of the race
early, to conserve strength.
Last weekend's icy run was
used by most members of the
Cross team as a fairly easy
workout.
The North Park women
dropped out at mile two, and.
the men made it to mile three.
Will Line, Ryan Wells and
Will Line, Ryan Wells and Matt Hedin did
manage to fit in a full 8k, but not on the
course, and not intentionally. Poorly marked
intersections confused more than a few
race participants.
rivalry which North Park hopes
to win once and for all at next
week's Regional meet.
The open race which fol-lowed
the Conference compe-titions
was a much larger and
more light-hearted race. Men
and women ran together over
the three-mile course. Five
North Park women ran their
personal bests. Linda Svens-son,
Sarah Thorson, Brita
Moon, Becky Eklund and
Kristin Downs all cut time off
their previous three-mile race
records.
Both teams started out look-ing
strong at the University of
Chicago Invitational last Satur-day,
despite freezing tempera-tures
and snow flurries. How-ever,
only Heather Johnson
crossed the finish line from
North Park, with a time of
30:30.
Matt Hedin did manage to fit in
a full 8k, but not on the course,
and not intentionally. Poorly
marked intersections confused
more than a few race partici-pants.
The runners are primed and
ready for the season finale in
Osh Kosh, Wisconsin, this
weekend. The vans will be
pulling out on Friday morning to
give the teams an early look at
the race course and ample time
to recover from the long (but
entertaining) ride.
The Regional meet is North
Park's only chance to defend
their status as Academic All-
American teams.
It is also the last college
meet for seniors Gus Anderson
and Dallas Nelson. The cross
country teams hope for favor-able
weather and good luck in
this season-closing race.
Official Standings of the 1995 Intramural Football Season
Rill Good
Puddlejumpers
Original Ball Busters
Your Worst Nightm
Brute Squad II
Touchdown Temptatiom
T.C. -4go
Sharkleberry
Men's 0: 4
Bootie Call
That's All She Wrote
Warner Bros.
Dazed & Confus
Purple People Eaters
Cavemen